The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Teacher-student relationships -- Fiction; Women teachers -- Fiction; Girls -- Fiction; Scotland -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A story of Edinburgh in the 1930's. Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with advanced ideas not only about the education of her charges, but also of her own place in the scheme of things in which she finds herself. This book tells the story of those anxious pre-war years when Miss Brodie is in her prime and the group of her favorite pupils, "the Brodie Set" are growing up in a world which contains Hitler as well as love--Adapted from book jacket.