{"product_id":"the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-9780241956779","title":"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie","description":"\u003cp\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 creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games.\u003c\/p\u003eNew edition of the Penguin Essential featuring a schoolmistress you'll never forget...  '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 cr me de la cr me, 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 . . .\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780241956779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 12 Jun 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 18.1(H)x11.1(L)x0.9(W)78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 78\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\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 Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding and Abetting (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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eSpark's most celebrated novel * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThere is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing, with its quirky concern with human nature, and its comedy -- William Boyd\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant psychological figure * Observer *","brand":"Muriel Spark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48717330809049,"sku":"9780241956779","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/61FfLSco-oL._SL1200.jpg?v=1779023379","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-9780241956779","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}