The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by:
Muriel Spark (author)
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent'A brilliantly psychological fugue' ObserverThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains...
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'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent'A brilliantly psychological fugue' ObserverThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961.Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. At the Marcia Blaine Academy she takes a select group of girls under her wing. Spellbound by Miss Brodie's unconventional teaching, these devoted pupils form the Brodie set. But as the girls enter their teenage years and they become increasingly drawn in by Miss Brodie's personal life, her ambitions for them take a startling and dark turn with devastating consequences.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781782117698
ASIN: B00XNBSCEE
Publish date: 2015-08-06
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 132
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Modern Classics,
Scotland
Miss Brodie is beloved by her pupils, decried by her colleagues. Her unconventional teaching methods and unusually close relationships with her pupils worry some. As for the chosen few, the Brodie set, they at first revel in their distinction. But they soon learn their loyalty may be misguided. Th...
Als erstes möchte ich der Madison Public Library (der öffentlichen Bibliothek von Madison) zustimmen, die das Buch auf ihre Liste der 100 gut lesbaren Klassiker gesetzt hat. Die Bibliothek definiert die beiden Kriterien wie folgt (von mir ins Deutsche übersetzt):»Ein Klassiker ist ein Werk von anhal...
I revisited Miss Brodie after a DNF last year - this book is among the Viking Top 100 of the 20th century. Spark was also a favorite author of an English professor of mine. I liked this book, didn't love it.Jean Brodie comes off as somewhat vain and self-important, constantly reminding her students ...
I don’t know why I went on a bit of a Muriel Spark kick this week. I’ve read this and Memento Mori before; but it seems to be some law of physics that with a few exceptions, if I read it before my son was born, it doesn’t count. If I read it when I was a kid, I probably read it six or seven times. I...
As Candia McWilliam writes in her introduction, Spark's most famous work is as economical and incisive as it could possibly be, throwing its time and place into sharp relief and offering deep insight into teenage experience and relationships. It is a glittering treasure of a book in which, in McWill...
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