A Celebration of Muriel Spark
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
- ASIN: 0061711292
- ISBN: 0061711292
- Brand: Spark, Muriel
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther,... [Read More]
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The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
- ASIN: 081121379X
- ISBN: 081121379X
- Brand: Brand: New Directions
- Manufacturer: New Directions
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself―"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"�... [Read More]
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
- ASIN: 1400042062
- ISBN: 1400042062
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
The brevity of Muriel Spark’s novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark’s most celebrated novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells the... [Read More]
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2008-09-02)
- ASIN: B01FJ07PSU
- Manufacturer: Paperback
In the center of Paris, Renee is the building's concierge. She is short, ugly and cantankerous, but also a lover and student of art, philosophy, music and Japanese culture. Paloma is a super smart 12 year old and the daughter of a tenant who has decided that she will end her life on her 13th birthday. Then a new tenant arrives and things change Thi... [Read More]
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Millard Salter's Last Day
- ASIN: 1507204086
- ISBN: 1507204086
- Brand: Gallery Books
- Manufacturer: Gallery Books
In the spirit of the New York Times bestselling A Man Called Ove, this is the heartwarming story of a man who decides to end his life before he’s too old—but then begins to reconsider when he faces complications from the world around him.In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation that comes with old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter decides... [Read More]
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The Driver's Seat (New Directions Bibelot)
- ASIN: B00A4VMPVC
- Manufacturer: New Directions
The Driver’s Seat, Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as “her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.”Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed so... [Read More]
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The Takeover: A Novel
- ASIN: B007ELLEC6
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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Territorial Rights: A Novel
- ASIN: B007ELLBRY
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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The Comforters (New Directions Revived Modern Classics)
- ASIN: 0811212858
- ISBN: 0811212858
- Brand: Brand: New Directions
- Manufacturer: New Directions
In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye (New Directions Classic)
- ASIN: B009T02672
- Manufacturer: New Directions
A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do “human research” into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny... [Read More]
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Miss Gomez and the Brethren
- ASIN: 0140252649
- ISBN: 0140252649
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Miss Gomez, a recent convert to the local church, has a feeling that a terrible sex crime will soon take place on Crow Street and warns the residents of that area, yet no one listens to her predictions until a young girl goes missing. Reprint.
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Loitering With Intent (Stone Barrington Book 16)
- ASIN: B0020BUWXC
- Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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The Fat Woman's Joke. Fay Weldon
- ASIN: 0007291752
- ISBN: 0007291752
- Manufacturer: n/a
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Muriel Sparks' "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Scotnotes)
- ASIN: 0948877146
- ISBN: 0948877146
- Manufacturer: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Muriel Spark's arch, subversive novel entertains us with its amusing, nostalgic evocation of the 1930s schooldays of a group of middle-class Edinburgh girls - then forces us to face up to the easy surface charms, and darker undercurrents, of Miss Jean Brodie's perfect self-assurance. David Robb's SCOTNOTE study guide untangles the many aspects of t... [Read More]
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Watching Me, Watching You
- ASIN: 0007109237
- ISBN: 0007109237
- Manufacturer: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. 'Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of th... [Read More]
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Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide : A Collection of Short Stories
- ASIN: 0006551661
- ISBN: 0006551661
- Manufacturer: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
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Spark Mjurijel. Luchshie gody miss Dzhin Brodi. Devicy so skudnymi sredstvami: Romany./Spark Muriel. The Best Years Miss Jean Brody. Devicy with meager means: Novels.
- ASIN: B071Z359LQ
- Manufacturer: Moscow
The following description is in Russian (transliterated), followed by an automated English translation. We apologize for inaccuracies in the computer-generated English translation. Please feel free to contact us for an accurate human English translation, which well be happy to prepare upon requestM.: Astrel. 2012. hardcover, the usual format.We shi... [Read More]
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Five Photos of My Wife
- ASIN: 0007291604
- ISBN: 0007291604
- Manufacturer: Flamingo
At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and tells her that he's decided to have his wife's portrait committed to paper or canva... [Read More]
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- ASIN: B07FK5VKK6
- Brand: Generic
- Size: 20 x 30 Inch
- Manufacturer: Gifts Delight
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- UPC: 024543119944
- ASIN: B0001US78G
- Brand: Prime
- Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Based on Muriel Spark?s best-selling novel, the film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie earned a Best Actress Oscar for its star, Maggie Smith, in 1969. The theme song, ?Jean? written by Rod McKuen, was also nominated for a Best Song Academy Award. An inspiration to the young girls she teaches and a challenge to the 1932 Edinburgh school who retains her... [Read More]
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