- Title:
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Written by:
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Muriel Spark
- Read by:
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Miriam Margolyes
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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4
- Duration:
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4 hours 45 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2020
- Available Date:
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April 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655661788
- Genres:
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Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Canongate audio
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Price
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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