The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
21 September 2017Synopsis
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.
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21 September 2017
9781509843701Reviews
She has established herself in the course of one sparkling lustrum. Miss Spark is indeed an author to be grateful for in our plutonian ageJoan Davenport, The Observer
Each of her sentences fulfils perfectly its own purpose, and there is never an extraneous joke. Miss Brodie makes excellent readingKarl 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 largeFrancis King, Time and Tide
Deliciously witty and eminently a ‘must’John O’ London’s
