The prime of Miss Jean Brodie /
Spark, Muriel
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark ; Introduction by Candia McWilliam. - London : Penguin Books, 2000. - xiii, 127 p. ; 20 cm. - Modern classic .
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 creme de la creme' - 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.
9780141181424
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction
Women teachers--Fiction
Girls--Fiction
Scotland--Fiction
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The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark ; Introduction by Candia McWilliam. - London : Penguin Books, 2000. - xiii, 127 p. ; 20 cm. - Modern classic .
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 creme de la creme' - 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.
9780141181424
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction
Women teachers--Fiction
Girls--Fiction
Scotland--Fiction
823