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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark (Penguin Essentials)
Muriel Spark
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Description for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark (Penguin Essentials)
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 78.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'
A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'
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 crème de la crème, each famous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Essentials
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241956779
SKU
V9780241956779
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About Muriel Spark
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark (Penguin Essentials)
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
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