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  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    "A perfect book"—the film version won Maggie Smith an Academy award—about a controversial teacher and her female students in the years before World War II ( Chicago Tribune)."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 ... Read more

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  • The Very Fine Clock

    Illustrated by Edward Gorey ...
    by Muriel Spark ...
    Two stars team up—Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey—to bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this children’s classic.Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professor’s friends suggest that Ticky be ... Read more

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  • The Hothouse by the East River

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Touched by madness and haunted by a secret past, Paul and Elsa's relationship reveals that there can be no normality for people who witnessed the worst of warIn 1970s New York, Paul and Elsa are like many other well-off middle-aged couples, worrying over their apartment and psychoanalyst bills by day, and meeting friends at restaurants by night. But this is not an ordinary couple with ordinary ... Read more

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  • Reality and Dreams

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    " Sleek and suggestive . . . [ Reality and Dreams] is so smart and seductive that you fail to notice how completely you've accepted a world gone utterly awry." — Kirkus ReviewsBritish film director Tom Richard won acclaim for his moments of pure creative inspiration. But when Richard is hospitalized after toppling from a crane during a shoot, he awakes not knowing what is real and what is not—and ... Read more

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  • The Mandelbaum Gate

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    For Barbara Vaughn, a checkpoint between Jordan and the newly formed Israel is the threshold to painful self-discoveryBarbara Vaughn is a scholarly woman whose fascination with religion stems partly from a conversion to Catholicism, and partly from her own half-Jewish background. When her boyfriend joins an archaeological excursion to search for additional Dead Sea Scrolls, Vaughn takes the ... Read more

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  • The Takeover

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    When an heiress moves to a villa on Italy's Lake Nemi, a houseguest plots to take it—and more—in this novel by a prizewinning master of dark comedy.When American heiress Maggie Radcliffe relocates to enchanting Lake Nemi, just south of Rome, she is determined to live in tune with ancient pagan rhythms of art and nature. At her new home—one of three that she owns—she is constantly surrounded by a ... Read more

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  • Territorial Rights

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    A witty, romantic farce from the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: "Beautifully put together and effortlessly entertaining" ( The New York Times).Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for a staid academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. ... Read more

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  • Complete Poems

    by Muriel Spark ...
    In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write "poetic" prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are those of a poet.' Including previously uncollected work, this new edition demonstrates her ear for the rightness of a line and her eye for the ... Read more

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  • The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected.I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at ... Read more

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  • The Golden Fleece

    by Muriel Spark ...
    The essays, reviews, memoirs, and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. The Golden Fleece, which takes its title from Spark's first published essay, has four sections—Art & Poetry; Autobiography & Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics & Philosophy—forming a kind of oblique autobiography, an evolving confession of a ... Read more

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  • The Only Problem

    A Novel

    by Muriel Spark ...
    A wealthy academic's life shatters when his estranged wife becomes the suspected leader of a terrorist organizationHaving led a successful, comfortable life, Harvey Gotham retires to the French countryside to pursue bookish obsessions—namely, a long monograph on the Book of Job, the biblical narrative of faith in the face of extraordinary suffering. But Gotham's intellectual interests soon bleed ... Read more

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  • Doctors of Philosophy

    A Play

    by Muriel Spark ...
    The only play by famed Scottish author Muriel Spark takes on the dilemmas of two intellectually ambitious women in 1960s EnglandIn a home overlooking London's Regent's Canal in the 1960s, two scholars debate the choices they have made with their lives. Catherine Delfont was one of the most promising minds of her generation, but after earning her PhD she gave up her research to marry a well ... Read more

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