{"product_id":"johnny-panic-and-the-bible-of-dreams-short-stories-prose-and-diary-excerpts-9780061549472","title":"Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. . . . If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; The poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.\" -- Sylvia Plath, \"Cambridge Notes\" (From Notebooks, February 1956)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. \u003cem\u003eJohnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlath, Sylvia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her books include the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eThe Colossus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrossing the Water\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWinter Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAriel\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize. A complete and uncut facsimile edition of \u003cem\u003eAriel\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2004 with her original selection and arrangement of poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes, with whom she had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas. She died in London in 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613541994770,"sku":"9780061549472","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06cc7e57-3fb9-4696-bf25-4a2940710ee0.jpg?v=1732406642","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/johnny-panic-and-the-bible-of-dreams-short-stories-prose-and-diary-excerpts-9780061549472","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}