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Original Title:	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN:	0060931736 (ISBN13: 9780060931735)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jean Brodie, Gordon Lowther, Teddy Lloyd, Miss Mackay, Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley, Mary Macgregor
Setting:	Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland,1933

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

Paperback | Pages: 150 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 40414 Users | 2600 Reviews

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Title	:	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Author	:	Muriel Spark
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Perennial Classics Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 150 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Scotland

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At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods and strives to bring out the best in each one of her students. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises them, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me." And they do--but one of them will betray her.

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A masterpiece.Rather like The Girls of Slender Means you are strongly aware of the economical construction, the careful rocking of the narrative backwards and forwards in time so that you know everything that will happen in the story in advance. Yet this has an odd effect in maintaining and sustaining the narrative, you are shifted from wanting to know what will happen, to how it will happen, to why it will happen, from events, dear boy, events to psychology. As I approached the end of this



"Truth is stranger than fiction." And that is a strange truth indeed considering the amount of strange things Muriel Spark manages to fit into her slim fiction. Miss Brodie's prime is as strange a phenomenon as they come. She is both modern and traditional, radical and conservative, openminded and protectionist. She is a Natural Fascist in the 1930s, a Scottish schoolmistress by trade but a girl shaper by profession. Give her a girl at an impressionable age, and she will form out of that

This is my second Muriel Spark; the first one, A Far Cry from Kensington, I read a few months ago. So, I am new to her writing and still trying to feel its pulse since I found both books very different in tone. This ought not to surprise me since almost three decades separate the two with 1961 for 'Miss Jean Brodie' and 1988 for 'Kensington'. This jump in time is echoed by the plots in a strange way, the earlier work is populated by schoolgirls and the latter dwells in the publishing world in

"Who is the greatest Italian painter?""Leonardo da Vinci, Miss Brodie.""That is incorrect. The answer is Giotto, he is my favourite."Jean Brodie. Oh Miss Jean Brodie. She may be one of my new favourite heroines in literature. I mean she's like up there with Emma Bovary from Madame Bovary, she's that good. I think there were other characters in this novel? Idk. I don't care. It's all about Jean. I love Jean. Jean. Jean. Hmmm I'm starting to think I liked her character more than the book itself.

Sex, art and politics. Three areas of life where idealism can get stuck in and have a field day. Miss Brodie has made a vocation of applying gold glitter to her preferences in life and seeks with single-minded righteousness to create a likeness of herself in her pupils. But in this novel Muriel Spark shows us she's not a great fan of idealism. In fact, she mercilessly ridicules it as a philosophical blueprint. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie sets itself up as a moral fable. Except it refuses to

My initial reaction is, take Dead Poets Society, make the students young women instead of young men, replace the character played by Robin Williams with Iago and -poof! - you have this novel.