The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark author Anna South editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:21st Sep '17
Should be back in stock very soon
An elegant collector’s edition of Muriel Spark’s classic novel of one teacher’s terrible, far-reaching influence on the lives of her students.
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.
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 *
ISBN: 9781509843701
Dimensions: 157mm x 100mm x 17mm
Weight: 150g
168 pages