The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Av Muriel Spark

<p><b>One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels that Shaped the World''<br></b><b>A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection<br></b><br>Muriel Spark''s classic <i>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</i> features a schoolmistress you''ll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.<br><br><b>''Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .''</b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.<br><br>''Muriel Spark''s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards'' John Updike<br><br>''Spark''s most celebrated novel'' <i>Independent</i><br><br>''There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy'' William Boyd<br><br>''A brilliant psychological figure'' <i>Observer</i><br><br>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 <i>Memento Mori</i> (1959), <i>The Ballad of Peckham Rye</i> (1960), <i>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</i> (1961), <i>The Girls of Slender Means</i> (1963) and <i>Aiding and Abetting</i> (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.</p>