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| Original Title: | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| ISBN: | 0060931736 (ISBN13: 9780060931735) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jean Brodie, Gordon Lowther, Teddy Lloyd, Miss Mackay, Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley, Mary Macgregor |
| Setting: | Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland,1933 |
Muriel Spark
Paperback | Pages: 150 pages Rating: 3.74 | 40414 Users | 2600 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Author | : | Muriel Spark |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Perennial Classics Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 150 pages |
| Published | : | February 3rd 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published 1961) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Scotland |
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At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods and strives to bring out the best in each one of her students. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises them, "Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me." And they do--but one of them will betray her.Rating Containing Books The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Ratings: 3.74 From 40414 Users | 2600 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
I found that I could not read the passages where Miss Brodie speaks unless my inner ear rendered them in the voice of the inimitable Maggie Smith. The combination of Jean Brodie's precise vocabulary and elegance of structure with Smith's lilting tones, and prolonged vowels - meant that at least for me, the two could not be separated. The passages where Jean Brodie speaks, did not come to life unless I allowed this rhythmic Edinburgh melody to prevail. 'There is an old tradition for thisHenry Louis Vivian Derozio is a name possibly not known or cared for beyond the frontiers of India. At the tender age of 17 this man of Anglo-Indian descent, possessing a sharp intellect and an even sharper tongue, was already a Professor of English Literature and History, busy influencing a group of eager, well-bred young men hailing from affluent Bengali families in Calcutta. He became a leading figure in the age of socio-cultural reform movements in Bengal in the dawn of the 19th century
A masterpiece.Rather like The Girls of Slender Means you are strongly aware of the economical construction, the careful rocking of the narrative backwards and forwards in time so that you know everything that will happen in the story in advance. Yet this has an odd effect in maintaining and sustaining the narrative, you are shifted from wanting to know what will happen, to how it will happen, to why it will happen, from events, dear boy, events to psychology. As I approached the end of this
It occurred to Sandy, there at the end of the Middle Meadow Walk, that the Brodie set was Miss Brodie's fascisti, not to the naked eye, marching along, but all knit together for her need and in another way, marching along. That was all right, but it seemed, too, that Miss Brodie's disapproval of the Girl Guides had jealousy in it, there was an inconsistency, a fault. Perhaps the Guides were too much a rival fascisti, and Miss Brodie could not bear it. One commonly featuring theme with all the
Of Mussolini,Don't Preach To a Teen-eyWhere You Teach"it's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"Sandy, now Sister Helena of the Transfiguration, is the omniscient narrator of the story looking back at her time in the 1930s at a Catholic grade school in Edinburgh, Scotland, time spent as part of the set of six girls who their teacher Miss Brodie called her "creme de la creme." Ms. Sparks used a number of flash-forwards to most effectively and methodically convey the ultimate betrayal of
Muriel Spark dipped her pen once more in that poisonous inkwell of hers and wrote this extraordinary tale of the unconvential behaviour of mistress Miss Jean Brodie which leaves you wondering if you are supposed to dig through layers of distortion and perspectives to learn what actual impact Miss Jean Brodie had on the life of each of her Brodie set girls. Or is it much more simple and is the clutch of Jean Brodie on her set only a positive imput on these impressionable girls lifes. The story is
"Truth is stranger than fiction." And that is a strange truth indeed considering the amount of strange things Muriel Spark manages to fit into her slim fiction. Miss Brodie's prime is as strange a phenomenon as they come. She is both modern and traditional, radical and conservative, openminded and protectionist. She is a Natural Fascist in the 1930s, a Scottish schoolmistress by trade but a girl shaper by profession. Give her a girl at an impressionable age, and she will form out of that
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