The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics) [Paperback]

"Muriel Spark is one of the few writers on either side of the Atlantic with enough resources, daring, and stamina to be altering, as well as feeding, the fiction machine...We are never out of touch in a Spark novel with the happiness of creation; the sudden willful largesse of magic and wit, the cunning tautness of suspense."-John Updike, "The New Yorker
"One of our greatest living novelists." -"The Times
"Spark's powers of invention are apparently inexhaustible." -"Commonwealth
"[Spark is] one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment." -"New York Times
"Some of [Spark's] finest fictions are novellas rather than novels, short enough to be read in a single dizzying sitting." -David Lodge
"[Spark] has written some things that seem likely to go on being read as long as fiction in English is read at all." -"New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

When an unbridled schoolmistress with advanced ideas is in her prime the classroom can take on a new identity and no one can predict what will happen. Jean Brodie is a teacher whose unconventional ideas put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, as she endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her "set".

Jean Brodie, a teacher with advanced and unconventional ideas that put her at odds with the other members of staff at the Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh, endeavours to shape the lives of the select group of girls who form her 'set'.

At once comic and provocative, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', set in the highly charged political atmosphere of the 1930s, is a story of idealism, disenchantment and ultimately betrayal.

'These are the years of my prime. You are benefiting by my prime.'

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was created OBE. A native of Scotland, she now lives in Italy.