The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games.
Spark's most celebrated novel * Independent *
There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy -- William Boyd
A brilliant psychological figure * Observer *
There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy -- William Boyd
A brilliant psychological figure * Observer *
Muriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding and Abetting (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241956779 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241956773 |
| Title | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| Series | Penguin Essentials |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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