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Dame Muriel Spark was born in 1918 and educated in Edinburgh, before spending a number of years in central Africa. Her novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957 and was the first of twenty-two full length works of fiction that include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and Loitering with Intent (1981). Although best known for her novels, Spark was also a prolific and highly successful writer in other mediums, producing a multitude of plays, poetry collections and short stories. She died in Italy in 2006; her obituary in the Telegraph remembered her as 'one of the most elegant and incisive of British novelists, famous for her astringent, vigorous prose and for the sinister and disorientating quality of her plots.'She has established herself in the course of one sparkling lustrum. Miss Spark is indeed an author to be grateful for in our plutonian age
Joan Davenport, The Observer
Each of her sentences fulfils perfectly its own purpose, and there is never an extraneous joke. Miss Brodie makes excellent reading
Karl Miller, New Statesmen
No other woman writer of this generation has simultaneously attracted so much notice from the critics and achieved so much success with the public at large
Francis King, Time and Tide
Deliciously witty and eminently a ‘must’
John O’ London’s
Every word goes home like a well-aimed arrow. I doubt if there is a more original or morally aware novelist writing in English to-day
Peter Green, The Daily Telegraph
It’s such a perfect gem of a story, morally complex, harrowing, funny, and featuring the most charismatic anti-hero in Scottish literature. Plus you can read it in a day.
- Ian Rankin, The Guardian
A compelling portrait of a charismatic teacher's dark quest for immortality, Muriel Spark's tour de force is one of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, this stunning clothbound edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features gold foiled edges, a ribbon marker, and an afterword by publisher Anna South. A perfect gift for any book lover.
Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher – passionate, independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devoted following of six young girls, 'the Brodie set', and begins to shape them in her own image. But beneath Miss Brodie's self-possessed facade lie some sinister truths and a keen interest in fascism . . .
Set in 1930s Edinburgh, Spark's compelling novel is a masterful portrayal of a charismatic yet manipulative teacher and her influence on impressionable students. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a classic of Scottish literature, exploring themes of education, adolescence, and the complexities of the human character.