The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark
Title | The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Whittaker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1984 |
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Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark
Title | Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Whittaker |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 1984-06-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349074640 |
The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark
Title | The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark PDF eBook |
Author | Ines Viecelli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1984 |
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Robinson
Title | Robinson PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel Spark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts |
ISBN | 9780140021578 |
January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as "an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the journal would turn upon me, so that having survived the plane disaster, I should nearly meet my death through it." In Robinson, Muriel Spark's wonderful second novel, under the tropical glare and strange fogs of the tiny island, we find a volcano, a ping-pong playing cat, a dealer in occult as well as lucky charms, flying ants, sexual tension, a disappearance, blackmail, and -- perhaps -- murder.
The Comforters
Title | The Comforters PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel Spark |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811222411 |
Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark
Title | Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780826207500 |
"Selecting novels representative of distinct phases in Muriel Spark's career, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe explores their themes, style, and structure in a detailed way for the first time. Edgecombe's approach brings to life the delicate nuances, rich allusions, and complicated ironies of Spark's fiction. His careful reading of the novels makes this a penetrating assessment of an important writer."--Publishers website.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Title | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel Spark |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2012-03-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1453245030 |
“A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on 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 favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.