PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE PB B – MURIEL SPARK-CANDIA MCWILLIAM

One of the BBC s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World A sublimely funny book … it is a book to be read by all … unforgettable and universal Candia McWilliam Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional 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. Muriel Spark s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Maggie Smith.