The Novels of Muriel Spark, Vol. 1 - Hardcover

Spark, Muriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395726700 ISBN 13: 9780395726709

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995

Synopsis

Here, in two handsome volumes, are ten celebrated novels by the author acclaimed as "the best English novelist writing today" (Times Literary Supplement). Available singly and as a boxed set, The Novels of Muriel Spark is both a collector's item for Spark's loyal following and an ideal introduction for new readers. Volume 1 begins with Spark's best-selling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), whose Scottish schoolmistress remains one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction, and follows it with The Comforters, her first novel (1957), The Only Problem (1984), The Driver's Seat (1970), and Memento Mori (1959), a comic and macabre study of old age. Volume 2 continues with Loitering with Intent (1981), a fascinating story of how art and life imitate each other; The Girls of Slender Means (1963), whose resourceful young heroines of war-ravaged London are of Spark's own generation; The Abbess of Crewe (1973), the tale of a Watergate-style power struggle ingeniously set in a conven

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About the Author:

Dame Muriel Spark had recieved nearly every literary award for her fiction, poetry, and criticism. The author of the Girls of Slender Means and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she makes her home on Italy.

From Library Journal:

Contained in these two volumes are The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Comforters, The Only Problem, The Driver's Seat, Memento to Mori, Loitering with Intent, The Girls of Slender Means, The Abbess of Crewe, The Bachelors, and The Ballad of Peckham Rye. A boxed set is available for $45 (ISBN
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0395726700
• ISBN 13: 9780395726709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672