{"product_id":"penguin-essentials-the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie","title":"Penguin Essentials the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'\u003cbr\u003eA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuriel Spark's classic \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/i\u003e features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassionate, 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards' John Updike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Spark's most celebrated novel' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy' William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant psychological figure' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950, when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer, and her many subsequent novels include \u003ci\u003eMemento Mori\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Peckham Rye\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Girls of Slender Means\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) and \u003ci\u003eAiding and Abetting\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). She also wrote plays, poems, children's books and biographies. She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993, and died in 2006.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61150243389774,"sku":"9780241956779","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5795\/6174\/files\/9780241956779.jpg?v=1791621668","url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/penguin-essentials-the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}