The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in 1930s Edinburgh at the genteel Marcia Blaine School for Girls, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie chronicles the magnetic and dangerously idealistic schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie, who handpicks a set of impressionable young students — her crème de la crème — and sets about moulding them in her own romantic, self-mythologising image. With sharp, incisive wit and a darkly comic tone, Muriel Spark constructs a portrait of charisma weaponised, tracing the subtle lines between inspiration and manipulation, devotion and betrayal. Spark's trademark narrative technique — coolly omniscient, laced with dramatic irony, and punctuated by flash-forwards that reveal the fates of her characters before they themselves know them — transforms what might have been a quiet school story into a profound meditation on power, fascism, and the seductive danger of the visionary individual. First published in 1961 and widely regarded as one of the finest British novels of the twentieth century, this slim yet devastating work rewards every reader with the unsettling question: who, in the end, truly betrayed whom?
Author: Muriel Spark
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set in 1930s Edinburgh at the genteel Marcia Blaine School for Girls, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie chronicles the magnetic and dangerously idealistic schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie, who handpicks a set of impressionable young students — her crème de la crème — and sets about moulding them in her own romantic, self-mythologising image. With sharp, incisive wit and a darkly comic tone, Muriel Spark constructs a portrait of charisma weaponised, tracing the subtle lines between inspiration and manipulation, devotion and betrayal. Spark's trademark narrative technique — coolly omniscient, laced with dramatic irony, and punctuated by flash-forwards that reveal the fates of her characters before they themselves know them — transforms what might have been a quiet school story into a profound meditation on power, fascism, and the seductive danger of the visionary individual. First published in 1961 and widely regarded as one of the finest British novels of the twentieth century, this slim yet devastating work rewards every reader with the unsettling question: who, in the end, truly betrayed whom?