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| Original Title: | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| ISBN: | 0060931736 (ISBN13: 9780060931735) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jean Brodie, Gordon Lowther, Teddy Lloyd, Miss Mackay, Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley, Mary Macgregor |
| Setting: | Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland,1933 |
Muriel Spark
Paperback | Pages: 150 pages Rating: 3.74 | 40414 Users | 2600 Reviews
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At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods and strives to bring out the best in each one of her students. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises them, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me." And they do--but one of them will betray her.
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| Title | : | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Author | : | Muriel Spark |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Perennial Classics Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 150 pages |
| Published | : | February 3rd 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published 1961) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Scotland |
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"I shall remain at this education factory where my duty lies. There needs must be a leaven in the lump. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. The gang who oppose me shall not succeed."- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Published in 1961 and set in a Scottish girl's school in the pre-World War II period (1930s) when Fascism was favorable (among those in their Prime) and on the rise, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' tells the story of an unconventionalThe central theme of this book focuses upon the pivotal role a teacher can play in the lives of young students. As young adults mature there is that point where seeking to become independent and searching to find a foothold in the adult world, peers and parents and all those one has relied on must be discarded. Sometimes it is a teacher that fills that hole. Then let's keep our fingers crossed that that teacher is a good one. Reading this book will make you think back to your own youth and that
My initial reaction is, take Dead Poets Society, make the students young women instead of young men, replace the character played by Robin Williams with Iago and -poof! - you have this novel.
A sterling example of literary compression and the effective use of non-chronological narrative structure. A book that gets the reader involuntarily exclaiming aloud such is its brilliance, its self assurance, its high level of artistic attainment.
Sex, art and politics. Three areas of life where idealism can get stuck in and have a field day. Miss Brodie has made a vocation of applying gold glitter to her preferences in life and seeks with single-minded righteousness to create a likeness of herself in her pupils. But in this novel Muriel Spark shows us she's not a great fan of idealism. In fact, she mercilessly ridicules it as a philosophical blueprint. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie sets itself up as a moral fable. Except it refuses to
My humble apologies must go to Muriel Spark, who not only did I assume was an American but also still in the land of the living (died 2006), until I discovered she turned out to be a bonny wee lass from Scotland (so much for my literary knowledge). One thing I am definitely sure of though, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' is definitively British through and through.Short and bittersweet, this features a quite sublimely constructed narrative full of wit and brevity where the story focuses on the
After reviewing several of Muriel Spark's less well-known books recently, I'm now attempting to review the one that made her famous. I imagined that it would be the easiest to write about, being the one with the most interesting structure (and the least absurd plot), but no, the opposite has been the case. In fact, I've had to scrap the review I wrote the other day because, for all its sensible words, it completely missed the point of the book. I knew what the point was but I somehow got
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