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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Essential Penguin)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Essential Penguin)

by Muriel Spark (Author)

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    Mass Market Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

Passionate, free-thinking and uncoventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over the group of 'special girls' at the Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie Set, the 'creme de la creme', each famous for something - Monicafor mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extra-curricular activites that they will never forget.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 03 Sep 1998
ISBN 10: 0140278710
ISBN 13: 9780140278712

Media Reviews
Muriel Spark is one of the few writers on either side of the Atlantic with enough resources, daring, and stamina to be altering, as well as feeding, the fiction machine...We are never out of touch in a Spark novel with the happiness of creation; the sudden willful largesse of magic and wit, the cunning tautness of suspense. -John Updike, The New Yorker
One of our greatest living novelists. - The Times
Spark's powers of invention are apparently inexhaustible. - Commonwealth
[Spark is] one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment. - New York Times
Some of [Spark's] finest fictions are novellas rather than novels, short enough to be read in a single dizzying sitting. -David Lodge
[Spark] has written some things that seem likely to go on being read as long as fiction in English is read at all. - New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of many novels, including MEMENTO MORI and THE BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE. A first volume of autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE, was published in 1992. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE is one of her best known and most respected books. She was awarded the DBE in 1993.