The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Author(s): Muriel Spark
"You girls are my vocation ...I am dedicated to you in my prime" So says Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher unlike any other. She is proud and cultured. A romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. When she decides to transform a select group of pupils into the 'creme de la creme' at the Marcia Blaine School they become the Brodie set. In exchange for their undivided loyalty the girls earn a special place of honour and privilege within the school. Yet they are also introduced to a startling new world of adult games and intrigues, and as boundaries are crossed so the difficulties start to unfold.
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'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel ... This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' - The Independent 'A brilliantly psychological fugue' - The Observer
Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children's books, radio plays, a comedy Doctors of Philosophy, (first performed in London in 1962 and published 1963) and biographies of nineteenth-century literary figures, including Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte. For her long career of literary achievement, which began in 1951, Muriel Spark garnered international praise and many awards, which include tthe first Enlightenment Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. She died in 2006.
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- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : 31 December 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
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- : Muriel Spark
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