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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
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Hardcover. Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. THE DRIVER'S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a ... Read more
The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. THE DRIVER'S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152746
SKU
V9781857152746
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About Muriel Spark
Sir Frank Kermode has been Northcliffe Professor Modern English Literature at University College, London, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. His many books include The Sense of an Ending, Romantic Image and a memoir, Not Entitled.
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