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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionMuriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.'Give me a girl at an …
Driver's Seat
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2025
85 kr
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMuriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise - heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence on her mind - you will understand why.
Miss Jean Brodies bästa år
Av Muriel Spark
Pocket, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
89 kr
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På en flickskola i mellankrigstidens Edinburgh samlar Miss Jean Brodie en frigjord, passionerad och högst målmedveten lärarinna en skara noggrant handplockade elever: de allra, allra bästa, hennes flickor, Brodies gäng. De mer konventionella skolämnena får ge vika för kärlek, politik och konst, och …
Girls Of Slender Means
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2020
139 kr
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'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war …
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A Novel
Av Muriel Spark
E-bok, 2012
171 kr
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"A perfect book"—the film version won Maggie Smith an Academy award—about a controversial teacher and her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune)."Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!"So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes …
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2000
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, …
Bachelors
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2014
182 kr
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First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented — defrauded or stolen from, blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid séances — and then plunged into the …
Ballad of Peckham Rye
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do “human research” into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder.
Loitering with Intent
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a …
Girls of Slender Means
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 1998
180 kr
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Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that …
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Barrington Stoke Edition
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2020, 12-15 år
119 kr
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Muriel Spark’s classic novel of the power of loyalty and influence, now available in a stunning package that is accessible for all readers. At an Edinburgh school in the 1930s, glamorous, outspoken Miss Jean Brodie is quite certain of her role as teacher: to devote the wisdom of her prime years to …
Not to Disturb
A Novel
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2010
152 kr
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A winter’s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, …
Girls Of Slender Means
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
146 kr
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Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions'In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the …
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem
Av Muriel Spark
Inbunden, 2004
187 kr
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The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit.Spark's most celebrated …
Spark's Europe
Not to Disturb: The Takeover: The Only Problem
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2016
152 kr
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From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian lakes to the castles of Geneva, Muriel Spark casts her unflinching gaze over the continent and onto some …
Complete Short Stories
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human …
Takeover
A Novel
Av Muriel Spark
E-bok, 2012
182 kr
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When an heiress moves to a villa on Italy''s Lake Nemi, a houseguest plots to take it—and more—in this novel by a prizewinning master of dark comedy.When American heiress Maggie Radcliffe relocates to enchanting Lake Nemi, just south of Rome, she is determined to live in tune with ancient pagan …
Loitering With Intent
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2007
144 kr
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A funny and clever novel about art and reality and the way they imitate each other, from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an introduction by Mark Lawson.Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose …
Bachelors
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2015
135 kr
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The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery.'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh …
Memento Mori
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2018
144 kr
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Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their geriatric feathers are thoroughly ruffled. As the caller's activities become more widespread, old …
Public Image
A Virago Modern Classic
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2014
144 kr
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Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid …
Driver's Seat
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2006
139 kr
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Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an introduction by John Lanchester in Penguin Modern Classics.Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for …
Ballad of Peckham Rye
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2006
146 kr
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A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye …
Observing Eye
The Sayings of Muriel Spark
Av Muriel Spark, Penelope Jardine
E-bok, 2018
79 kr
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The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark''s brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckish observations: ''Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people''s mentalities.'' ''It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but …
Observing Eye
The Sayings of Muriel Spark
Av Muriel Spark, Penelope Jardine
Häftad, 2018
172 kr
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The Observing Eye is a collection of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms. No other writer can hold a candle to her wry, puckish observations:'Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.''It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but …
Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
Av Muriel Spark, Dan Gunn
E-bok, 2025
260 kr
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The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.*One of the TLS Books of the Year 2025* In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage, Muriel Spark was unknown as a writer except to a handful of close …
Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
Av Muriel Spark, Dan Gunn
Inbunden, 2025
400 kr
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The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.*One of the TLS Books of the Year 2025* In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage, Muriel Spark was unknown as a writer except to a handful of close …
