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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

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#226

3.8 (5 reviews)
Pages
150

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...

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Reader Reviews (5)

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forline

Dec 31st, 2017

delightful!

bryanoz

Sep 21st, 2017

Murfville

Aug 27th, 2017

Portia

Mar 10th, 2017

red13x

Dec 8th, 2013

Good book, I enjoyed the development of the girls throughout the book and the influences of Miss Jean Brodie.