An edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The girls of slender means ; The driver's seat ; The only problem

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An edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The girls of slender means ; The driver's seat ; The only problem

  • 3.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 64 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

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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Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2011, Diesterweg
in English
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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
February 10, 2009, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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
in English
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1994, HarperPerennial
in English - 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Cover of: Les belles années de Mademoiselle Brodie
Les belles années de Mademoiselle Brodie
March 4, 1992, Fayard
Paperback
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1984, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1966, Dell
in English
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1965, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. xx).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR6037.P29 A6 2004, PR6037.P29A6 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxv, 462 p. ;
Number of pages
462

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3693823M
Internet Archive
primeofmissjeanb0000spar_j4a8
ISBN 10
1400042062
LCCN
2003069487
OCLC/WorldCat
54007314
Library Thing
38996
Goodreads
37388

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