The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Hardcover

Muriel Spark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568496982 ISBN 13: 9781568496986

Publisher: Buccaneer Books, 1998

Synopsis

The classic bestselling book--the subject of a play, movie, and a song--that tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students.

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From the Inside Flap:

The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit.
Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS" is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. THE DRIVER'S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And THE ONLY PROBLEM is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism.
All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance.

About the Author:

Dame Muriel Spark was born in 1918. She is the author of more than twenty books, including Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, and Symposium.

About this edition

• Publisher: Buccaneer Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1568496982
• ISBN 13: 9781568496986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187