The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
About this book
Muriel Spark’s timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in the years leading up to World War II "Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 63571 readers · 179 pages · ≈ 3 h 19 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
About ≈ 3 h 19 m — 179 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
179 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
It sits on the Travel, Fiction shelves.
Has The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1976), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1972), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1971), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1970).
Is The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who are the main characters in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
The main characters include Miss Jean Brodie.
Where does The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie take place?
It is set in Edinburgh, Scotland during 1932.
Who wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
Muriel Spark.