Muriel Spark’s timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II
“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite … Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold — and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By murielspark
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I loved this book! Very short at 132 pages, but the characters were so intriguing, and the story was wonderful. Especially Miss Brodie – a complicated and flawed woman. Really fine writing and I recommend it.
Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher at Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. She’s a romantic and a free-thinker. Teachers who encounter her students in later years find them to be singularly lacking in concrete skills but full of an intangible…something. They stick together as a “set” and spend much of their free time in Miss Brodie’s company. …
A critic from the Chicago Tribune called this “A perfect book.” He was right.
Spark creates an amazing story with some of the most seamless transitions between past and present.
It’s the 1930s. A teacher who is both brilliant and full of herself gathers a group of misfits under her wing and tells them that they’re special. They’re the best. Meanwhile, Mussolini, Hitler, and the Spanish Civil War rage in the background. A brilliant, acidly witty sendup on the rise and fall of fascism on the smallest scale.
I really didn’t …
A classic story about a teacher, Miss Jean Brodie, who is in her prime. Brodie is not your typical teacher at a very conventional school and she mentors a specific set of girls known at the Brodie set.
Miss Jean Brodie is always introduced as being in her “prime” which loosely translates to being a young woman in love and is loose and free. …