The Novel

The protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression.

Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists.

Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists.

She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide.

Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in January 1963 under the pen name Victoria Lucas

The short epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, or The Sorrows of Young Werther

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, published in 1885.

A novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in twelve monthly installments in The Russian Messenger during 1866 and published as a separate edition in 1867.

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American author Jack Kerouac, inspired by his travels across the United States.

Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortazar.

The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

Weep Not, Child is the 1964 debut novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, one of the first major English-language novels published by an East African writer.

Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.

is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy

is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima

is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami

is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by the Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin

is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924

is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse