The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to present. In 2026, it placed #31 on The Guardian's list of the 100 best novels of all time.
- Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 164
