The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241964002
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

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12 Jun 2012
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1 Jul 2000
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24 Jul 2013
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Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel

'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 when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the crème de la crème at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set.

Introduced to an unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the Brodie Set know that they are honoured and privileged. Yet there is a price to pay - they must give Miss Brodie their undivided loyalty . . .
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241964002
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

The most gifted and innovative British novelist of her generation

David Lodge, The New York Times

Spark's most celebrated novel. This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction

Independent

Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards

John Updike, New Yorker

One of the greatest books about growing up

James Wood, Guardian

"Clever and elegant" is very acute as a catch-all description of Muriel Spark's appeal

William Boyd, Telegraph