The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie A Novel
| Author/creator | Spark, Muriel Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Open Road Media Iconic Ebooks [Imprint] New York : Open Road Integrated Media, LLC |
| Description | 140 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Summary | Annotation Muriel Sparks timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War IIGive 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781453245033 |
| ISBN | 1453245030 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781453245033 |
| Stock number | 01521375 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |