Muriel spark deceased (10 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ USED PAPERBACK SMALL SIZE EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONT.TAPE ON INSIDE PAGE TO COVER -WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGEPublishing, 1998 Used 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.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ USED PAPERBACK EDITION CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONTEDINBURGH: Canongate Books, 2015 Used 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.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ USED VINTAGE PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER and tear at base of spine.PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE PAGE and tear at base of spineCamberwell, Vic: New Directions Publishing, 2014 Used Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Used.WELL READ USED PAPERBACK SMALL SIZE EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONT.MARK ON  INSIDE PAGE TO COVER -WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity ?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 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.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ USED PAPERBACK SMALL SIZE EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONT.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE The Comforters is the first novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark She drew on experiences as a recent convert to Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations due to using Dexedrine, an amphetamine then available over the counter for dieting Although completed in late 1955, the book was not published until 1957 A mutual friend, novelist Alan Barnsley, had sent the proofs to Evelyn Waugh At the time Waugh was writing The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which dealt with his own drug-induced hallucinations.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ USED PAPERBACK SMALL SIZE EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER & MARKS ON FRONT-PRIOR BOOKSHOP STAMP ON INSIDE PAGE-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE & MARKS ON FRONTLondon: New Directions Publishing, 1993 Used All homage to Muriel Spark, the coolest writer ever to scald your liver and your lights" (The Washington Post) The Public Image, which the author has called "an ethical shocker," provides a scalding the reader is unlikely to forget, particularly as it is so enjoyable Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "The English Lady-Tiger"), who has made the fatal mistake of believing in her public image This error and her embittered husband, and unsuccessful actor, catch up with her Her final act is only the first shocking climax???further surprises await Neatly savaging our celebrity culture, Spark rejoices in one of her favorite subjects???the clash between sham and genuine identity???and provides Annabel with an unexpected triumph.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. North Ryde: New Directions, 2014 WELL READ USED VINTAGE PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER and tear at base of spine.PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE PAGE The Drivers Seat, Sparks own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as ? a spiny and treacherous masterpieceDriven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday ? in search of passionate adventure and sex In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. EX LIBRARY.large size hard cover with dust jacket - FIRST EDITION-SMALL MARK ON INSIDE BLANK PAGEUsed.SMALL TEAR ON INSIDE BLANK PAGE EX LIBRARY.Symposium is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990. It was regarded by John Mortimer writing in The Sunday Times as one of the best novels of that year.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. London: MID SIZE VINTAGE  HARD COVER WITH DUST JACKET - 1966  EDITION =WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGEHachette UK, 1965 . Used. When Barbara Vaughan's fianc?? joins an archaeological excursion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, she takes the opportunity to explore the Holy Land. It is 1961, and the nation of Israel is still in its infancy. For Barbara, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, this is a journey of faith, and she ignores warnings not to cross the Mandelbaum Gate from Israel into Jordan. An adventure of espionage and abduction, from pilgrimage to flight, The Mandelbaum Gate is one of Spark's most compelling novels, and won the James Tait Memorial Prize.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1967 Used.LARGE SIZE HARD COVER WITH DUST JACKET - FIRST EDITION OF THESE COLLECTED STORIES PUBLISHED BY MACMILLAN- A collection of Muriel Spark's short stories which includes "A Member of the Family", "The Go-Away Bird" and "The Girl I Left Behind Me". Contents: - The Portobello Road. - The Curtain Blown by the Breeze.…