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Muriel Spark
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize when first published in 1965, The Mandelbaum Gate is among Muriel Spark’s most accomplished novels.
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A title written by the author of novels such as Memento Mori (1959), The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender…
First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn’t be more relevant for today’s celebrity-obsessed culture. This is Spark at her wittiest, wickedest best.
Ali Smith
Full transcript of Ali Smith’s Muriel Spark lecture, given in November 2017.
Esto es una novela. Una novela en la que su protagonista, Caroline Rose, escritora en potencia recien convertida al catolicismo, oye voces. En concreto, la voz y las teclas de…
This classic work tells the darkly intriguing story of a passionate, outspoken Scottish teacher and the intense relationship she develops with her students. The cult-like reverence that she inspires ultimately…
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A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts…
This classic work tells the darkly intriguing story of a passionate, outspoken Scottish teacher and the intense relationship she develops with her students. The cult-like reverence that she inspires leads…
This is Sparks rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. While the young women do their best to act as if…
All homage to Muriel Spark, the coolest writer ever to scald your liver and your lights (The Washington Post). The Public Image, which the author has called an ethical shocker…
Where does art start or reality end?
Perhaps you know Patrick Seton? He’s that dear little, sinister little medium one meets at spiritualist seances. Well, they’ve accused him of forgery: he’s coming up for trial. And all…
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian
'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'
Miss Jean Brodie…
These essays offer fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006). Looking at the cultural, literary, religious and personal frameworks that shaped her writing, The Crooked Dividend…
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Fotini E. Apostolou
This text analyzes the seductive and destructive power of certain signs and structures in Muriel Spark’s fiction. Works discussed include The Comforters , Memento Mori , The Prime of Miss…
Cairns Craig
This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark’s religious commitments and her artistic innovations.
Muriel Spark’s oeuvre is contextualised in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on ‘being towards death’.
Alan Taylor
This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course…
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Dame Muriel Spark published over twenty novels and many short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. This title includes essays that consider Spark as both Scottish…
A resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark’s oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.
M. McQuillan,etc.
Theorizing Muriel Spark is an attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and deconstructive reading…
M. McQuillan
Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading.
Hidden Possibilities combines solid scholarship with engaging personal tributes that, collectively, offer an unabashed celebration of Muriel Spark and her work.
M. Spark
An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity.
Brontes
The Letters of the Brontes: A Selection is a collection of letters written by the famous Bronte siblings - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - to each other and to other…
Rajhans Kirti
Muriel Spark is well-known as one of the distinctive and original writers of Post-War English fiction. Winner of many prestigious awards and a popular novelist, she is equally appreciated by…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
James Bailey
This book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark’s literary career.
A Study Guide for Muriel Spark’s The First Year of My Life, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age
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Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions, begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark’s tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a…
The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway
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This lethally witty and morally penetrating new novel is set at a vaguely disreputable finishing school run by a sometimes writer and his wife. Into his creative writing class comes…
The arrival of Chris Wiley, a seventeen-year-old literary prodigy whose historical novel on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of Lord Darnley has already ignited publisher interest, at the…
The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London
Muriel Spark,Nadia May
Now in paperback, here are the sparkling essays of Muriel Spark, the writer of the best sentences in English (The New Yorker)
In four short works of contemporary fiction that probe metaphysical truths, a charismatic teacher has a devastating impact on her students, young women struggle for survival in a post-war London…
Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests’ dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.
Muriel Spark’s classic novel of the power of loyalty and influence now available in a stunning package that is accessible for all readers.
* ‘The divine Spark is shining at her brightest … Pure delight’ Claire Tomalin, Independent
A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, ‘mistress of the highest high comedy’ (The Times)
Muriel Spark’s stunning debut novel