The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
$22.40
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2012
Summary
New edition of the Penguin Essential featuring a schoolmistress you’ll never forget…
‘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 cr me de la cr me, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a wor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241956779 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241956773 |
| Author: | Muriel Spark |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 78g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Spark’s most celebrated novel
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 BoydA brilliant psychological figure * Observer *
About The Author
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 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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