The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Literature & Fiction

Muriel Spark

Classics

Perennial

Traces the life of Mary Shelley, describes her relationship with her poet husband, and discusses her own literary achievements

Mary Shelley

Constable

The two questions that are put to Muriel Spark most frequently are these: "Are your novels autobiographical?" and "Why did you become a Catholic?" The first of these questions Muriel Spark has consistently deflected. Now in this volume, she gives her readers the answers to both questions. In her first novel, "The Comforters", Mrs Spark wrote about a young woman recently converted to Catholicism who struggles against the will of the novelist who has created her. Many assumed that this reflected the author's own religious experience and self-consciousness about the business of writing fiction. But before then Muriel Spark had already written autobiographical studies and works of literary criticism, and had determined that she would be first and foremost a poet. Muriel Spark writes about her childhood in Edinburgh (foreigners were tolerated but the English were something quite different); she describes her Jewish father, the original Miss Jean Brodie, her marriage and her time in Africa which was the inspiration for "The Go-Away Bird" and so much of her early writing. There have been hints in later novels of her work as a publisher's editor ("A Far Cry From Kensington"), her lodgings in London ("The Ballad of Peckham Rye") and her work for the Poetry Society. Now Mrs Spark gives a direct account of the people and places which inspired so much of her work.

Curriculum Vitae: a Volume of Autobiography: A Volume of Autobiography (Biography and Memoirs)

Muriel Spark Omnibus 2 (Fiction - General)

A collection of three pieces of work from 20th century novelist, Muriel Spark, comprising THE MANDELBAUM GATE, NOT TO DISTURB, and THE TAKEOVER.

Muriel Spark Omnibus 3 (Fiction - General)

Constable and Company Ltd.

204p paperback with cover drawing by Terence Greer, small pen mark to front, otherwise a very good copy

The Comforters

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Reality and Dreams

Penguin

From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her unique talent. 
The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century.

The Complete Short Stories

This is a collection of four short stories taken from "The Collected Stories" of Muriel Spark: "The Portobello Road", "Bang-Bang You're Dead", "The Seraph and the Zambesi" and "The Dragon".

The Portobello Road (Penguin 60s S.)

Girls of Slender Means

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'\nThe May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world?

Girls Of Slender Means

Genre Fiction

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