{"product_id":"9780062940834","title":"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e“[Plath’s] story is stirring, in sneaky, unexpected ways. . . . Look carefully and there’s a new angle here — on how, and why, we read Plath today.”— Parul Sehgal, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNever before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, \u003cem\u003eMary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“But what \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021717717232,"sku":"9780062940834","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062940834_p0.jpg?v=1763634042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062940834","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}