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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)by: Muriel Spark  Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781857152746 ISBN: 1857152743 Label: Everyman's Library Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: May 06, 2004 Publisher: Everyman's Library Studio: Everyman's Library Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In Muriel Spark's novels the brevity is only equalled by the brilliance. This collection of four stories, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrates her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Her most famous book, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, has been made into a play and a film. It explores the perils of personal and political infatuation among schoolgirls and their teachers. Salvation is the theme of The Girls Of Slender Means, which vividly evokes the life of postwar London. The Driver's Seat, made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, charts the heroine's descent into madness. The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering, which brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Prime...Years ago I saw a TV production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." If memory serves, Geraldine McEwan played the title role. I don't remember much about it. Time and again, I would encounter the book on lists like "1001 Books To Read Before You Die." Since this is one of the shorter ones on the those lists, I'm surprised it took me several years to read it. Correction: I waited several years to start it. Reading this book only takes one or two sittings. I liked the overall Edinburgh ... Read More Rating:  - A book best enjoyed by those in their primeDon't give up on this book if you don't like it the first time you read it. It improves with age...your age. At 14, I just didn't "get" the book. Going to an English all-girls' school I could absolutely identify with the opening passage relating to the dreaded Panama hat, and like many of the girls in the book, boys to us were pretty much a foreign country. However, apart from those aspects I felt the book was irrelevant and rather dated compared to my school days in the late 1970s. Read More Rating: - Hippy of the 1930's -- Chapter 3 described it all [76][T]Imaginatively asking and answering questions to and for her students, protagonist Miss Brodie leads her set of six young women from the ages of 10 to 18 -- a journey that they define to be the "main influence of their school days." Each girl in the set is different. Like the seven dwarfs, you could nickname the six girls: Rose Stanley (Sexy); Monica Douglas (Brainy); Eunice Gardner (Splits); Sandy Stranger (Pscho); Jenny Gray (Actor) and Mary MacGregor (Sleepy). This eclectic group of ... Read More Rating: - Hmm...This book is definitely a unique read. It is not afraid to "tell it like it is," you may say. However, I found myself wanting to like the characters, especially Jean Brodie, much more than I actually did. I'm not saying that none of the characters were likeable, but I did have a difficult time feeling any sympathy or compassion for any of them. Rating: - SuperbThis is art. There is not one unnecessary word in this novel. Miss Brodie is a mystery throughout the story and you just go on pondering about the characters long after it is finished. And, you: Watch the film starring Maggie Smith, too. It's absolutely a masterpiece. 
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