The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem Hardcover | Pages: 512 pages

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Title	:	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
Author	:	Muriel Spark
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	May 6th 2004 by Random House (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. European Literature. British Literature. 20th Century. Short Stories. Novels

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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 novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. THE DRIVER'S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And THE ONLY PROBLEM is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism.

Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance.

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Original Title:	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
ISBN:	1857152743 (ISBN13: 9781857152746)
Edition Language:	English

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The embarrassing admission first: I read Muriel Spark's books because her name is close to my own. (I really hate it when people call me Muriel, though. I dislike being called Ariel only slightly less.) Other people might have heard of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie because of the famous film starring Maggie Smith. All are good reasons to stumble onto a gem. It's really cool when you can find some cool thing by surprise. Like having a cool teacher to tell you about something great...It's a great

This was perhaps the most influential book on my life, even before I actually read it. When I was thirteen years old, the BBC series of the book staring Geraldine McEwan as Miss Brodie was shown on television. Miss Brodie efforts to instill gentility into her students had a great effect on me and along with them, I determined to make myself the "crème de la crème". I followed her instruction in all ways from walking with a book on my head to practicing proper skin care and credit what poise and



The embarrassing admission first: I read Muriel Spark's books because her name is close to my own. (I really hate it when people call me Muriel, though. I dislike being called Ariel only slightly less.) Other people might have heard of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie because of the famous film starring Maggie Smith. All are good reasons to stumble onto a gem. It's really cool when you can find some cool thing by surprise. Like having a cool teacher to tell you about something great...It's a great

Stranger than fiction: One can have a long-lasting friendship with another person, be of one mind on many subjects, and have nearly antithetical tastes in books.

Never read this book before or seen the film so I was pleasantly surprised by it.The story is about a spinster teacher in the 30's in Edinburgh and about her attitude toawards teaching (anti filling the pupils heads with dead knowledge) and how she creams of six of them to be 'her set'.She was ahead of her time but I found her sad and lonely and seemingly living her life through her pupils. She also had an unhealthy hold on the girls and in the end is betrayed by one of them.Would definately

I actually only read 3 of the 4 novellas. Because I had seen the movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, (and loved it), I thought I would save that one for last. However, after reading the other 3, I decided not to bother. While well written and often clever, I can't say I enjoyed reading any of these novellas. I didn't see the point of The Girls of Slender Means and the many characters were all rather superficial. The Driver's Seat was more engaging - at times creepy and disturbing. An