{"product_id":"mary-ventura-and-the-ninth-kingdom-a-story","title":"Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\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 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.”\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":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67975854555335,"sku":"P46729S","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0077\/9010\/0553\/files\/marissasbooksandgifts-9780062940834-mary-ventura-and-the-ninth-kingdom-a-story-1263936941.jpg?v=1792621176","url":"https:\/\/marissasbooks.com\/products\/mary-ventura-and-the-ninth-kingdom-a-story","provider":"Marissa's Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}