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Title: Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom: A Story
Author: Sylvia Plath
Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:43:13
Language: English
Release date: 01-22-2019
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
Summary:
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.
Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.
Lips 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.
“But what is 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.”
Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.
