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The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectabi ...Show more
The Essence of the Brontes A Compilation with Essays by Muriel Spark
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Brontë sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Brontë's poems. Perceptively but unsentimentally, Spark considers the Brontës' lives and works, including their generally disastrous attempts ...Show more
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
'One of her funniest novels ...Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionab ...Show more
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t ...Show more
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
This is beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, "The Girls of Slender Means". 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'. In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' ...Show more
The Mandelbaum Gate: A Virago Modern Classic by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
When Barbara Vaughan's fiance joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy. For Barbara, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, this is a journey of faith, and she ignores warnings not ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh with advanced ideas not only about the education of her charges, but also her own place in the scheme of things. Muriel Spark's wit and insight shine through this story of the 1930s, when Miss Brodie is in her prime ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction
This is 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. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly prog ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'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 ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is `Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she'll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.' ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodiefeatures 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 ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Barrington Stoke) by Muriel Spark
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Category: Young Adult
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 impressio ...Show more