The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

2012-03-20 Fiction

Author : Muriel Spark
Release : 2012-03-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 030/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by : Muriel Spark

Download or read book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie written by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 2012-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. 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. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

1998-04-17 Fiction

Author : Muriel Spark
Release : 1998-04-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 040/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) written by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 1998-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar

2018-12-04 Fiction

Author : Olga Wojtas
Release : 2018-12-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar written by Olga Wojtas. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A librarian with deceptively dangerous skills is sent back in time to Tzarist Russia in this “laugh-out-loud farce” and homage to Muriel Spark (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Never underestimate a librarian. Comfortable padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that scurrilous novel that spread scandalous untruths about the finest educational institution in Edinburgh. Shona’s skills, her deceptively mild appearance, and her passionate loyalty make her the perfect recruit for an interesting new project: time travel to Tzarist Russia, prevent a gross miscarriage of romance, and—in any spare time—see to it that only the right people get murdered. It’s a big job, but no task is too daunting for a prefect from Miss Blaine’s. “A delightful addition to the ranks of comic crime.” —The Guardian, UK

Loitering with Intent

2014-05-27 Fiction

Author : Muriel Spark
Release : 2014-05-27
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 755/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Loitering with Intent written by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.

The Only Problem

2012-03-20 Fiction

Author : Muriel Spark
Release : 2012-03-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 049/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Only Problem written by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 2012-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA wealthy academic’s life shatters when his estranged wife becomes the suspected leader of a terrorist organization/divDIV /divDIV/divDIVHaving led a successful, comfortable life, Harvey Gotham retires to the French countryside to pursue bookish obsessions—namely, a long monograph on the Book of Job, the biblical narrative of faith in the face of extraordinary suffering. But Gotham’s intellectual interests soon bleed into his daily life when a series of misfortunes, from a destructive affair to his wife’s involvement with an extremist group, threaten to destroy everything he holds dear./divDIV /divDIVHailed by the New York Times as “an extremely sophisticated account of the perils that surround our unsuspecting lives in the world today,”The Only Problem balances Spark’s unique blend of razor-sharp satire and moral introspection in one fast-paced, absorbing novel./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland./divDIV /divDIV/div/div

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