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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
Feb 6, 2018 · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel. Paperback – February 6, 2018. Now in a special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth, Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of the 20th century’s best.
‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life,’ states Miss Jean Brodie, the titular character of Muriel Spark’s best regarded novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. This slim and seductive masterpiece tells the story of the ‘Brodie set,’ the young girls who were the pupils of Miss Brodie in Junior school and ...
Mar 20, 2012 · The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
- Muriel Spark
Jul 30, 2013 · Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel Paperback – Feb. 6 2018. by Muriel Spark (Author) 3.9 3,475 ratings. See all formats and editions. Now in a special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth, Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of the 20th century’s best.
- Muriel Spark
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. 'A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliam. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction.
- Muriel Spark
Summary. '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.
Aug 6, 2015 · Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and...
Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the crème de la crème' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.
