The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Dyslexia-friendly Classics) (Perennial Classics) (The Collected Muriel Spark Novels)

by Muriel Spark

Candia McWilliam (Introduction) and A. K. Ramanujan (Translator)

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliam

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the crème de la crème' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith.

  • ISBN10 0141181427
  • ISBN13 9780141181424
  • Publish Date 24 February 2000 (first published 1 December 1962)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics