'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . My admiration for Spark's contribution to world literature knows no bounds. She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the creme de la creme' Ian Rankin'Spark is a...

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" von Muriel Spark ist ein Roman, der in den 1930er Jahren in Edinburgh spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die charismatische und unkonventionelle Lehrerin Miss Jean Brodie, die an einer Mädchenschule...

Aiding and Abetting, Muriel Spark's twenty-first novel, was first published in 2000

Reality and Dreams, Muriel Spark's twentieth novel, was published in 1996 and won the 1997 David Cohen British Literature Prize.

Spark's classic novel adjusted to be more accessible to dyslexic readers. A unique and glamorous teacher passes on what she learned in her prime to a selection of girls set to be shaped by the teacher's influence across their lives. von...

Es gab drei Überlebende bei der Flugzeugkatastrophe. Die Lissabon-Maschine war über Robinsons kleiner vulkanischer Insel abgestürzt, tausend Meilen fern von jeder Zivilisation. Robinson führte dort ein Einsiedlerleben. Während die drei...

Territorial Rights von Spark, Muriel

'It never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.'The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the...

Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something -...

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...

Je älter wir alle werden, desto frischer und makabrer wird dieser Roman: ein Meisterwerk des schwarzen Humors über Alter und Tod." Christine Dössel Mit erbarmungsloser Komik schildert Muriel Spark die Abenteuer des unverbesserlichen...

Muriel Spark, DBE, C.Litt., was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and educated in Scotland. A poet, essayist and novelist, she is most well-known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and her writing is widely celebrated for its biting wit and...