Muriel Spark

The Girls Of Slender Means

  • The Girls Of Slender Means

  • '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 Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
The Driver's Seat
The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
A Far Cry From Kensington
A Far Cry From Kensington
Muriel Spark
The Public Image
The Public Image
Muriel Spark

Penguin Essentials

96 Books
Penguin Modern Classics

Penguin Modern Classics

1176 Books

Muriel Spark's many novels include Memento Mori, The Girls of Slender Means, A Far Cry From Kensington, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (adapted for film and theatre), Aiding And Abetting and her final novel, The Finishing School. She was elected C. Litt in 1992 and awarded the DBE in 1993. Dame Muriel Spark received many awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the FNAC Prix Etranger, the Saltire Prize, the Ingersoll T. S. Eliot Award and the David Cohen British Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. Dame Muriel Spark died in 2006.

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