The Novels of Muriel Spark, Volume 2 (Loitering with Intent/The Girls of Slender Means/The Abbess of Crewe/The Bachelors/The Ballad of Peckham Rye)

Spark, Muriel

ISBN 10: 0395726719 / ISBN 13: 9780395726716

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Novels of Muriel Spark, Volume 2 (Loitering with Intent/The Girls of Slender Means/The Abbess of Crewe/The Bachelors/The Ballad of Peckham Rye)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395726719
• ISBN 13: 9780395726716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Here, in two handsome volumes, are ten celebrated novels by the author acclaimed as "the best English novelist writing today" (Times Literary Supplement). Available singly and as a boxed set, The Novels of Muriel Spark is both a collector's item for Spark's loyal following and an ideal introduction for new readers. Volume 1 begins with Spark's best-selling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), whose Scottish schoolmistress remains one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction, and follows it with The Comforters, her first novel (1957), The Only Problem (1984), The Driver's Seat (1970), and Memento Mori (1959), a comic and macabre study of old age. Volume 2 continues with Loitering with Intent (1981), a fascinating story of how art and life imitate each other; The Girls of Slender Means (1963), whose resourceful young heroines of war-ravaged London are of Spark's own generation; The Abbess of Crewe (1973), the tale of a Watergate-style power struggle ingeniously set in a conven