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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By Muriel Spark
Series: Penguin Essentials
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is a compelling tale set in 1930s Edinburgh, where the charismatic and unorthodox teacher, Miss Jean Brodie, is committed to shaping her select group of young girls. As she imparts her own eclectic beliefs on art, politics, and love, her influence deeply shapes her students' lives, resulting in unforeseen consequences. The novel explores themes of power, betrayal, and the complexities of mentorship within the confines of a conservative society.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate character-driven stories rich in wit and irony. It offers a fascinating exploration of individual influence and control within the confines of a 1930s Edinburgh school. If you're drawn to tales with complex personalities and moral ambiguity, you may find this book particularly intriguing.

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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 creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games.

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New edition of the Penguin Essential featuring a schoolmistress you'll never forget...

'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 . . .

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is widely celebrated as one of Muriel Spark's standout novels. Reviewers praise its exploration of human nature and psychology, often noting its distinctive and comedic writing style. Independent sources and critics like William Boyd admire Spark's unique narrative voice and the depth of her character development.

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ISBN: 9780241956779

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 78g

Pages: 128

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Muriel Spark Penguin Books Series: Penguin Essentials

About the Author

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.

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