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The Girls Of Slender Means New Directions Classic
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1998-04-17
The Girls Of Slender Means New Directions Classic written by Muriel Spark and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-17 with Fiction categories.
"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."
The Girls Of Slender Means
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-09-29
The Girls Of Slender Means written by Muriel Spark and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Fiction categories.
'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 age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle one another over suitors (some more suitable than others) and a single Schiaparelli gown. But can a love of literature, fine clothes and amorous young men save these young ladies from the horrors of the real world? 'Unsettling and exhilarating' William Boyd, Daily Telegraph 'An enduring genius' Guardian
The Girls Of Slender Means
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1963
The Girls Of Slender Means written by Muriel Spark and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Fiction categories.
The zany lives and morals of the girls of the "May of Teck Club", a haven for young ladies, in 1945, when "all the nice people of England were poor, allowing for exceptions".
The Girls Of Slender Means
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
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Release Date : 1983
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Life in a hostel for girls in the London of 1945.
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2015-08-06
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie written by Muriel Spark and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Fiction categories.
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent 'A brilliantly psychological fugue' Observer The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961. Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. At the Marcia Blaine Academy she takes a select group of girls under her wing. Spellbound by Miss Brodie's unconventional teaching, these devoted pupils form the Brodie set. But as the girls enter their teenage years and they become increasingly drawn in by Miss Brodie's personal life, her ambitions for them take a startling and dark turn with devastating consequences.
Loitering With Intent
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Loitering With Intent written by Muriel Spark and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Fiction categories.
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 Girls Of Slender Means
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Reality And Dreams
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-03-20
Reality And Dreams written by Muriel Spark and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-20 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIV“Sleek and suggestive . . . [Reality and Dreams] is so smart and seductive that you fail to notice how completely you’ve accepted a world gone utterly awry.” —Kirkus Reviews /divDIV/divDIVBritish film director Tom Richard won acclaim for his moments of pure creative inspiration. But when Richard is hospitalized after toppling from a crane during a shoot, he awakes not knowing what is real and what is not—and with no idea who to trust. Soon his wife, children, and friends are all undergoing crises of their own, from the breakup of a marriage to the loss of a job. As Richard fights to regain his health and stay centered amid the swirling chaos of his personal life, he must also wrest control of his film—his most prized pursuit—from those who seek to take it away./divDIV /divDIVWitty andengrossing, Reality and Dreams is a whiplash ride through the highs and lows of the creative process./divDIV /divDIVThis 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./divDIV /divDIV/div/div
The Abbess Of Crewe
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1995
The Abbess Of Crewe written by Muriel Spark and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
"The short dirk in the hands of Muriel Spark has always been a deadly weapon," said The New York Times, and "never more so than in The Abbess of Crewe." An elegant little fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, The Abbess of Crewe is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra (whose aristocratic tastes run to pâté, fine wine, English poetry, and carpets of "amorous green") has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and--plunged into scandal--the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.
The Bachelors
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Author : Muriel Spark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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