<p><i>Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people's dreams...</i><br> <br> An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret vocation. A girl endures a series of initiation ceremonies to join her high school sorority. A married woman seeks relief from the dull realities of daily life. From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, twenty-four of which are collected here, along with works of journalism and extracts from her journal.<br> <br> <b>'All the pieces presented here are revealing . . . It ought to round out one's knowledge of the writer, and, perhaps, offer some surprises. Luckily it does both.' Margaret Atwood, <i>New York Times</i></b><br> <br> <b>'A beautiful, delicate, commanding poet.' Lena Dunham</b><br> <br> <b>'</b><b>She embodied a seismic shift in consciousness which enabled us to feel and think as we do today, and of which she was a supremely vulnerable and willing casualty. She changed our world.' Margaret Drabble,</b> <i><b>Guardian</b></i></p>