Never 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.
Sylvia Plath\'s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion..
There is no going back.
It is the kingdom of the frozen will, comes the reply.
But what is the Ninth kingdom? she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage.
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.
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.
Never 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
