Modern Classics Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Scottish novelist Muriel Spark is known for her acute ability to expose the petty weaknesses of her characters, illuminating the darker side of the human experience. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie asks readers to recognize whether the human experience has a prime, if this special climactic time of life can be identified and if bitterness occurs as this time passes. The story tells of a school teacher with the profound ability to impressionably impact her students. Written with Spark's classic comic wit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has also become an acclaimed stage, film and television production.

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - the 'creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie Set, introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget.