The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Hardcover)

from stillatim

I think I'd read/heard too much about this book before I read it, and came in with too many expectations. The most helpful bookstore worker ever (no, really, great guy) recommended it for my wife as an airport read, proclaiming it 'delightful.' And so it is. In 'Whatever Happened to Modernism?', ...

from ccookie

First line: ~ The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycles between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away ~ This is a port...

from nigeyb

What a curious book. In terms of style, Muriel Spark's non-sequential narrative and extensive use of prolepsis, is unusual, and yet works well as Muriel Spark repeats the same themes and phrases. The book is also very simple to read and well written. I thought it was refreshing to read about such...

from etxgardener

I read this book years ago, and now on re-reading it for my book group I'm struck not so much with how evil Jean Brodie is, but how ridiculous. She pontificates about love, art, and of course the marvels of Mussolini, in such a preposterous manner that one wonders why the adults don't just laugh ...

from brenzi

Miss Jean Brodie plies her unorthodox teaching methods at the sedate Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she is in her prime, "the moment one is born to." In the 1930s, between-the-wars, she was not that different from other spinsters, teaching elsewhere in Scotland. But ...