Really excellent. A lovely short novel about a free-thinking teacher and her students in 1930s Edinburgh. Spark writes such beautiful sentences and captures the nature of teenage girls perfectly.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Perennial Classics
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At once comic and provocative, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, set in the highly charged political atmosphere of the 1930s, is a story of idealism, disenchantment and ultimately betrayal. 'These are the years of my prime. You are benefiting by my prime.'
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At once comic and provocative, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, set in the highly charged political atmosphere of the 1930s, is a story of idealism, disenchantment and ultimately betrayal. 'These are the years of my prime. You are benefiting by my prime.'
ISBN-13: 9781439501450
ISBN-10: 1439501459
Publication Date: 6/26/2008
Pages: 150
Edition: Reprint
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ISBN-10: 1439501459
Publication Date: 6/26/2008
Pages: 150
Edition: Reprint
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Book Type: Library Binding
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Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) on + 813 more book reviews
Miss Brodie teaches at an all-girl school at which she is a pedantic maverick and is constantly under threat of removal. Small wonder! Her teaching methodology is highly unorthodox, as is her personal relationship with her young charges over whom she is bent upon exerting control. Miss B is also in her prime: a fact with which the reader is bombarded page after page. Hence, you guessed it, the title. The narrative is also front loaded with flash-forwards of the characters lives. (If I read once more about how Mary McM. dies in a hotel fire I think Ill scream.) Its a battle of wits between the head mistress, Mackay, and Miss B. Who will win out? That is the question.
