Muriel Spark

  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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    “A perfect book.”–Chicago Tribune

    Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of best of the twentieth century’s–the story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special (and ultimately danger

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    • Series: Harper Perennial Olive Editions
    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063459817
    • Language: English
  • Loitering with Intent

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    Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographica… [more below]

    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 27 2014
    • ISBN10: 0811223035
    • Language: English
  • Symposium

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    One October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying “the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)” and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, … [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Classics #1053
    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 17 2006
    • ISBN10: 0811216594
    • Language: English
  • A Far Cry from Kensington

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    Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“… [more below]

    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: May 27 2014
    • ISBN10: 0811223027
    • Language: English
  • The Girls of Slender Means

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    Like the May of Teck Club itself–“three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit”–its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution,… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Classics #0
    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: April 17 1998
    • ISBN10: 081121379X
    • Language: English
  • Memento Mori

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    In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffl… [more below]

    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 27 2014
    • ISBN10: 0811223043
    • Language: English
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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    “Includes an essay by James Wood”–Cover.

    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Spark, Muriel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 10, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0061711292
    • Language: English
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