The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'

Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget. But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty . . .

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.

REVIEWS

"Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards." - John Updike

"There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy." - William Boyd

"A brilliant psychological figure." - Observer

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback 
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:  ‎978-0241956779
Pages: 128