The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. First Edition (1961)

Author: Muriel Spark

Book ID: 69631

Price: 395.00

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. London: Macmillan, 1961. First Edition. Pp,170. Green cloth boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned along margins, with a small red mark to the rear of the dust jacket, foxing (browning) to preliminary leaves & fore-edge; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Muriel Spark’s most famous and enduring novel. It is widely considered a masterpiece of 20th-century literature, renowned for its innovative narrative structure, dark humour, and complex exploration of themes like education, betrayal, fascism, and the manipulation of innocence.

The book was successfully adapted into a stage play, a famous film (starring Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for her role), and a television series.

 

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