The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul": First Edition of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

SPARK, Muriel.

Item Number: 106772

London: Macmillan, 1961.

First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum.

"The twinkling wit of Muriel Spark is always a joy to behold, and never more so, in my opinion, than in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Connolly, 260). Listed on Modern Library's 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present. It was adapted to film in 1969 for which Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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