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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
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Description for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Paperback. Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian
'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'
Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the crème de la crème at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set.
Introduced to an unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the Brodie ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241964002
SKU
V9780241964002
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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
The most gifted and innovative British novelist of her generation
David Lodge
The New York Times
Spark's most celebrated novel. This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction
Independent
Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards
John Updike
New Yorker
One of the ... Read more
David Lodge
The New York Times
Spark's most celebrated novel. This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction
Independent
Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards
John Updike
New Yorker
One of the ... Read more