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Muriel Spark’s timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II
"Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
February 10, 2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The girls of slender means ; The driver's seat ; The only problem
2004, Everyman's Library, distributed by Random House, Distributed by Random House
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dell Pub. Co., c1961.
"A Plume book."
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