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Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the author of over twenty novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as well as critical biographies, radio plays, children's books, poetry, and short-story collections. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993 and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1996. Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the US Ingersoll Foundation TS Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for services to literature. She was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1969 for The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent.[22] In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for a "Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature".[23] Spark received eight honorary doctorates including Doctor of the University degree (Honoris causa) from her alma mater, Heriot-Watt University in 1995;[24] a Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris causa) from the American University of Paris in 2005; and Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London, Oxford, St Andrews and Strathclyde.[25] In 2008, The Times ranked Spark as No. 8 in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[26] In 2010, Spark was posthumously shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize of 1970 for The Driver's Seat.

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Title:

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Written by:

Muriel Spark 

Read by:

Miriam Margolyes 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

4 

Duration:

4 hours 45 minutes 

Published:

April 01 2020 

Available Date:

April 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655661788 

Genres:

Fiction; Historical Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Canongate audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 29.95

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Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget

Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. At the Marcia Blaine Academy she takes a select group of girls under her wing. Spellbound by Miss Brodie’s unconventional teaching, these devoted pupils form the Brodie set. But as the girls enter their teenage years and they become increasingly drawn in by Miss Brodie’s personal life, her ambitions for them take a startling and dark turn with devastating consequences. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark’s most significant and celebrated novel and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961.

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

'Spark is a natural, a paradigm of that rare sort of artist from whom work of the highest quality flows as elementally as current through a circuit: hook her to a pen and the juice purls out of her.'
The New Yorker

'Muriel Spark’s novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards, decisive as a smashed glass is decisive.'
John Updike