Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006) wrote more than twenty books, including Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, and Symposium.
"Admirably written." -- Saturday Review"A gloriously witty and polished vignette." -- Times Literary Supplement"Remarkable: Surprises are systematically reduced until there is only one left, and it is like the stab of a stiletto." -- Spectator"[A] lovely new edition. . . . With caustic humor and stripped-down restraint, Spark makes us feel Jean Brodie's sadness and ache. Maggie Smith played the character in a famous film, but the book itself is even more powerful." -- Los Angeles Times"A remarkable novel." -- New Statesman"A perfect book." -- Chicago Tribune"Intelligent, witty. . . . Spark's powers of invention are apparently inexhaustible." -- Commonweal"Muriel Spark is one of the few writers on either side of the Atlantic with enough resources, daring, and stamina to be altering, as well as feeding, the fiction machine." -- John Updike, The New Yorker
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