The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A perfect bookand basis for the Maggie Smith filmabout a teacher who makes a lasting impression on 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 comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to moldand she doesnt stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodies indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Sparks masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literatures most iconic and complex charactersa woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors archive at the National Library of Scotland.