Muriel Spark
Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
February 01, 1918
Died
April 13, 2006
Genre
Influences
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
200 editions
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published
1961
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The Driver's Seat
by
57 editions
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published
1970
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The Girls of Slender Means
73 editions
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published
1963
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A Far Cry from Kensington
61 editions
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published
1988
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Memento Mori
2 editions
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published
1959
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Loitering with Intent
59 editions
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published
1981
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
49 editions
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published
1960
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The Comforters
46 editions
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published
1957
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
7 editions
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published
1999
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The Finishing School
33 editions
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2004
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“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.”
― A Far Cry from Kensington
― A Far Cry from Kensington
Polls
April 2024 New School Classic Group Read Poll
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 1997, 321 pages
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, 1954, 249 pages
True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 1970, 103 pages
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, 1940 216 pages
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, 1956, 501 pages
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1989, 518 pages
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