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  1. The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811215497 - UTGIVEN: 2003-10

    I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhap[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the Girls of Slender Means, the Driver's Seat, the Only Problem (Inbunden)

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    Spark, Muriel

    ISBN: 9781400042067

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
    The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling w[...]

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    från 160.00 kr
  3. The Informed Air (Inbunden)

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    Muriel Spark, Penelope (EDT) Jardine, Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811221597 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

    A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life; love; cats; favorite writers (T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, the Brontes, Mary Shelley); Piero della Francesca; life in wartime London and in glamorous "Hollywood-on-the-Tiber;" 1960s Rome; faith; and parties (on her firs[...]

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    från 196.00 kr
  4. The Golden Fleece (Pocket)

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    Muriel Spark, Penelope (EDT) Jardine, Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9781847772510 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04

    The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one of the great critical imaginations of our time. Grouped into four sections (Art and Poetry; Autobiography and Travel; Literature; and Religion, Politics and Philosophy), they demonstrate the wide range o[...]

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    från 239.00 kr
  5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark, James Wood

    ISBN: 9780061711299 - UTGIVEN: 200902

    At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affai[...]

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    från 240.00 kr
  6. The Finishing School (Storpocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780141005980 - UTGIVEN: 2005-04

    Passionately determined to write his novel whilst running College Sunrise, a finishing school for both sexes and mixed nationalities, Rowland Mahler is assisted by his wife, Nina Parker. This term there is a new star pupil - Chris, seventeen, also determined to write his masterpiece. As Chris's nove[...]

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    från 158.00 kr
  7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Storpocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780141181424 - UTGIVEN: 200002

    Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative char[...]

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    från 112.00 kr
  8. The Driver's Seat (Storpocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780141188348 - UTGIVEN: 200604

    Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional e[...]

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    från 99.00 kr
  9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780241956779 - UTGIVEN: 201204

    Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin Essentials" edition. 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a tea[...]

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    från 93.00 kr
  10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780241964002 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06

    This is beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". 'You girls are my vocation...I am dedicated to you in my prime'. Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly [...]

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    från 103.00 kr
  11. Aiding and Abetting (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780385720908 - UTGIVEN: 2002-03

    In Aiding and Abetting," "the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England's most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the "aiders and abetters" who kept him on the loose.
    When Lord Lucan walks into psychiatrist Hildeg[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  12. Muriel Spark (Inbunden)

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    Martin Stannard

    ISBN: 9780393051742 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04

    Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae, recorded her early years but politely blurred her darker moments: troubled relations with her family, a ter[...]

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    från 276.00 kr
  13. The Girls of Slender Means (Pocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811213790 - UTGIVEN: 199804

    The last months of World War II bring unforgettable experiences to the residents of a young spinsters' club in Londons' West End[...]

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    från 90.00 kr
  14. The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811214087 - UTGIVEN: 199905

    The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will st[...]

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    från 100.00 kr
  15. Loitering With Intent (Pocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811214742 - UTGIVEN: 200106

    Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive jeux d'esprit. "How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on t[...]

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    från 101.00 kr
  16. Symposium (Pocket)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811216593 - UTGIVEN: 2006-10

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    från 115.00 kr
  17. The Bachelors (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811222983 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06

    First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented -- defrauded or stolen from, blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid seances -- and then plunged into the nasti[...]

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    från 119.00 kr
  18. The Ballad of Peckham Rye (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811222990 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do "human research" into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder.[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  19. The Comforters (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811223003 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    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.[...]

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    från 169.00 kr
  20. The Driver's Seat (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811223010 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday -- in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.[...]

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    från 195.00 kr
  21. A Far Cry from Kensington (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811223027 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher ("of very good books") and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. E[...]

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    från 152.00 kr
  22. Loitering with Intent (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811223034 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    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 blackm[...]

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    från 134.00 kr
  23. Memento Mori (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780811223041 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08

    In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.[...]

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    från 202.00 kr
  24. The Complete Short Stories (Häftad)

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    Muriel Spark

    ISBN: 9780857862273 - UTGIVEN: 2011-08

    From the cruel irony of "A member of the Family" to the fateful echoes of "The Go-Away Bird" and the unexpectedly sinister "The Girl I Left Behind Me", in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human[...]

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    från 129.00 kr
  25. Muriel Spark's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Häftad)

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    David S. Robb

    ISBN: 9780948877148 - UTGIVEN: 199902

    Muriel Spark's arch, subversive novel entertains us with its amusing, nostalgic evocation of the 1930s schooldays of a group of middle-class Edinburgh girls - then forces us to face up to the easy surface charms, and darker undercurrents, of Miss Jean Brodie's perfect self-assurance. David Robb's[...]

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    från 74.00 kr