Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem

By:

Muriel Spark

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Hardback

Series:

Everyman's Library Classics

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In Muriel Spark's novels the brevity is only equalled by the brilliance. This collection of four stories, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrates her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Her most famous book, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, has been made into a play and a film. It explores the perils of personal and political infatuation among schoolgirls and their teachers. Salvation is the theme of The Girls Of Slender Means, which vividly evokes the life of postwar London. The Driver's Seat, made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, charts the heroine's descent into madness. The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering, which brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism.

Author Biography:

Sir Frank Kermode has been Northcliffe Professor Modern English Literature at University College, London, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. His many books include The Sense of an Ending, Romantic Image and a memoir, Not Entitled.

Release date NZ

May 6th, 2004

Author

Muriel Spark

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

512

Series

Everyman's Library Classics

Dimensions

134x211x29

ISBN-13

9781857152746

Product ID

1638388

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