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Muriel Spark
Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
February 01, 1918
Died
April 13, 2006
Genre
Influences
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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published
1961
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7 editions
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The Driver's Seat
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published
1970
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2 editions
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The Girls of Slender Means
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published
1963
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83 editions
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A Far Cry from Kensington
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published
1988
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70 editions
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Memento Mori
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published
1959
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110 editions
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Loitering with Intent
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published
1981
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64 editions
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
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published
1960
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62 editions
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The Comforters
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published
1957
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50 editions
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's Seat / The Only Problem
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published
1999
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7 editions
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Symposium
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published
1990
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3 editions
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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
March 2015 New School Classic Poll
Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?
Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?
1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages
1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages
1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages
1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages
1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages
1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages
1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages
1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
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