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Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

• Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem
  

• Muriel Spark
  

• Page: 512
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  

• ISBN: 9781400042067
  

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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 ...