La plenitud de la senyoreta Brodie

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Paperback, 164 pages

Catalan language

Published by LaBreu Edicions.

ISBN:
978-84-945249-0-5
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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 …

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A school story, but Harry Potter it's not. Set in a private school in Edinburgh in the 1930s it follows six girls through the last seven years of their school careers, and we see their favourite teacher through their eyes, and through the influence she has on them.

I won't try to describe the book more than that, because I read descriptions of it before I found a copy in a second-hand bookshop, and it turned out to be so much better than any of the descriptions.

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I must say that I was a little disappointed in this book. I had heard so must about it for years that I was very pleased to find it second hand last week. However, it was clearly very much a book of its time (just before I was born) and place (the opposite side od Scotland to where I lived, which was less of a problem). Still worthwhile, but less witty than I had hoped.

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