Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and other prose writings

<p>From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.<br><br>When the first edition of <b>Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams</b> appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the <i>Guardian</i>, ''the book does offer . . . new insight into her development as a writer, suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent''.<br><br>This second edition contains the thirteen stories included in the first edition together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a few fragments from her journal; and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive.</p>