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  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) (Hardback) By (author) Muriel Spark, Introduction by Frank Kermode

  

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  Short Description for The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieFour novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.
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  • Publisher: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
  • Published: 06 May 2004
  • Format: Hardback 512 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781857152746 ISBN 10: 1857152743
  • Sales rank: 191,343

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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.