The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) write by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 1998-04-17. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Loitering with Intent
Loitering with Intent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loitering with Intent write by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Loitering with Intent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie write by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 2012-03-20. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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.
Robinson
Robinson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robinson write by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 1982. Robinson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Girls of Slender Means write by Muriel Spark. This book was released on 1998. The Girls of Slender Means available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
