Muriel Spark Best Novels - April 2024

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)

At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and—most important—in her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her crème de la crème. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set—Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy—is "famous f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061711292
• ASIN: 0061711292
• ISBN: 0061711292
• Brand: Spark, Muriel
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself―"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"―its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 081121379X
• ASIN: 081121379X
• ISBN: 081121379X
• Brand: Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

The brevity of Muriel Spark’s novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark’s most celebrated novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils. The Girls of Slender Means is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. The Driver’s Seat follows the fin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400042062
• ASIN: 1400042062
• ISBN: 1400042062
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2008-09-02)

In the center of Paris, Renee is the building's concierge. She is short, ugly and cantankerous, but also a lover and student of art, philosophy, music and Japanese culture. Paloma is a super smart 12 year old and the daughter of a tenant who has decided that she will end her life on her 13th birthday. Then a new tenant arrives and things change This was a New York Times bestseller.

• ASIN: B01FJ07PSU
• ASIN: B01FJ07PSU
• Manufacturer: Paperback

Millard Salter's Last Day

In the spirit of the New York Times bestselling A Man Called Ove, this is the heartwarming story of a man who decides to end his life before he’s too old—but then begins to reconsider when he faces complications from the world around him.In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation that comes with old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter decides to kill himself by the end of the day—but first he has to tie up some loose ends. These include a tête-à-tête with his youngest son, Lysander, who at forty-three has yet to hold down a paying job; an unscheduled rendezvous with his first wife, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1507204086
• ASIN: 1507204086
• ISBN: 1507204086
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

The Driver's Seat (New Directions Bibelot)

The Driver’s Seat, Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as “her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.”Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.

• ASIN: B00A4VMPVC
• ASIN: B00A4VMPVC
• Manufacturer: New Directions

The Takeover: A Novel

• ASIN: B007ELLEC6
• ASIN: B007ELLEC6
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Territorial Rights: A Novel

• ASIN: B007ELLBRY
• ASIN: B007ELLBRY
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Comforters (New Directions Revived Modern Classics)

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.

• ASIN: 0811212858
• ASIN: 0811212858
• ISBN: 0811212858
• Brand: Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

The Ballad of Peckham Rye (New Directions Classic)

A slender satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times)The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do “human research” into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder.

• ASIN: B009T02672
• ASIN: B009T02672
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Miss Gomez and the Brethren

Miss Gomez, a recent convert to the local church, has a feeling that a terrible sex crime will soon take place on Crow Street and warns the residents of that area, yet no one listens to her predictions until a young girl goes missing. Reprint.

• ASIN: 0140252649
• ASIN: 0140252649
• ISBN: 0140252649
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Loitering With Intent (Stone Barrington Book 16)

• ASIN: B0020BUWXC
• ASIN: B0020BUWXC
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Fat Woman's Joke. Fay Weldon

• ASIN: 0007291752
• ASIN: 0007291752
• ISBN: 0007291752
• Manufacturer: n/a

Muriel Sparks' "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Scotnotes)

Muriel Spark's arch, subversive novel entertains us with its amusing, nostalgic evocation of the 1930s schooldays of a group of middle-class Edinburgh girls - then forces us to face up to the easy surface charms, and darker undercurrents, of Miss Jean Brodie's perfect self-assurance. David Robb's SCOTNOTE study guide untangles the many aspects of this novel - historical, political, psychological and religious - and is an ideal guide for senior school pupils and students at all levels.

• ASIN: 0948877146
• ASIN: 0948877146
• ISBN: 0948877146
• Manufacturer: Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Watching Me, Watching You

A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. 'Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, 'Alopecia', can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in 'Threnody', a women's commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0007109237
• ASIN: 0007109237
• ISBN: 0007109237
• Manufacturer: Harpercollins Pub Ltd

All the Stories of Muriel Spark

Four brand new tales are now added to New Directions' original 1997 cloth edition of Open to the

• UPC: 1578321
• Rating: 4.0

The Best of Me

Original publication and copyright date:

• UPC: 21809395
• Rating: 3.83

Messages chiffrés : les contes de Muriel Spark - eBook

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format

• UPC: 448107613

Aiding and Abetting : A Novel

The doyenne of literary satire, bestselling author of "The Abbess of Crewe" and "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, " Muriel Spark spins a speculative yarn around the true-crime case of one of England's most

• UPC: 25244112
• Rating: 3.8

The Best of Me (Movie Tie-In)

Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last

• UPC: 37176468
• Rating: 3.75

Metafictional Aspects in Novels by Muriel Spark - eBook

Examination Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), language: English, abstract: ANYTHING WRITTEN IN ENGLISH IS A LIE

• UPC: 307036750

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the

• UPC: 24756357
• Rating: 5.0

The Best of Me

Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last

• UPC: 16345168
• Color: .Other
• Rating: 3.923

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark - eBook

Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected.I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest

• UPC: 467756808

The Novels of Muriel Spark : Eight Pack

All eight stunningly redesigned Muriel Spark novels in one fresh pack with styled spine London

• UPC: 36113173