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The Complete Short Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark; Janice Galloway (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectabi ...Show more
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Bibelot Ser.
Lise has had enough. She's been working in the same accountancy firm for years and so she decides to take off abroad on the holiday of alifetime. Her quest for new experiences, sex and adventure quickly becomes a dark journey of self-destruction. Described by Muriel Spark as a'whodunnit', The Driver's S ...Show more
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Canons
'One of her funniest novels ...Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionab ...Show more
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Category: Fiction
'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.' The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, t ...Show more
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Category: Fiction
This is beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, "The Girls of Slender Means". 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'. In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' ...Show more
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Classic Ser.
London, 1945. The girls of slender means are the residents of the May of Teck Club, a genteel yet rather shabby boarding house established for the 'social protection of ladies of slender means below the age of thirty years'. The novel concerns their everyday affairs over a period of a few weeks before a ...Show more
The Informed Air by Muriel Spark; Penelope Jardine
Category: Non-Fiction
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Bront#65533;s, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley), love, Piero della Francesca, life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber" 1960s Rome, faith, and parties (on her fir ...Show more
The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark
Category: Non-Fiction
A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontes, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her first Ne ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Category: Fiction | Series: The Collected Muriel Spark Novels
Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is `Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she'll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my prime.' ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodiefeatures 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 ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm ho ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more