Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd, 04/2012
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241956779
- Item number:
- 1878062
- Volume:
- 128 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Weight:
- 78 g
- Format:
- 185 x 113 mm
- Thickness:
- 10 mm
- Release date:
- 5.4.2012
- Series:
- Penguin Essentials
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 11.95* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 17.55* |
Blurb
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 impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'
Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty . . .
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.
'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards' John Updike
'Spark's most celebrated novel' Independent
'There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy' William Boyd
'A brilliant psychological figure' Observer
Muriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding and Abetting (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.
Biography
Muriel Spark, geboren 1918 in Edinburgh, ist Autorin von Romanen, Theaterstücken, Kinderbüchern und Gedichten. Sie war Herausgeberin der "Poetry Review" und Mitarbeiterin des "New Yorker". 1992 wurde sie für ihr Werk mit dem T.S.-Eliot-Preis für kreatives Schreiben ausgezeichnet, 1997 erhielt sie den David Cohen British Literature Prize, 1999 den Ehrendoktortitel für Literatur der Oxford University.§Muriel Spark starb im April 2006 in der Toskana, wo sie drei Jahrzehnte lang lebte.
