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Muriel Spark (1918–2006)

Auteur de Le bel âge de miss Brodie

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Muriel Spark has been called "our most chillingly comic writer since Evelyn Waugh" by the London Spectator, and the New Yorker praised her novel Memento Mori ri (1959) as "flawless." Her fiction is marked by its remarkable diversity, wit, and craftsmanship. "She happens to be, by some rare concatenation of grace and talent, an artist, a serious---and most accomplished---writer, a moralist engaged with the human predicament, wildly entertaining, and a joy to read" (SRSR). She became widely known in the United States when the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). Set in Edinburgh in the 1930s, this is the story of a schoolteacher, her unorthodox approach to life, and its effect on her select group of adolescent girls. Though their idol turns out to have feet of clay, she leaves an indelible mark on their lives. The Girls of Slender Means (1963), also warmly praised, is a sardonic look at the vivacity of youth and the anxieties of young womanhood. Reviewing The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) for the New Republic, Honor Tracy wrote: "There is an abundance here of invention, humor, poetry, wit, perception, that all but takes the breath away. . . . The story, in fact, is pure adventure, with the suspense as artfully maintained as anywhere by Graham Greene, but this is only one ingredient. There are memorable descriptions of the Holy Land, fascinating insights into the jumble of intrigue and piety surrounding the Holy Places, and penetrating studies of Arabs. . . . In each of [Spark's] novels heretofore one of her qualities has tended to predominate over the others. Here for the first time they are all impressively marshaled side by side, resulting in her best work so far." The daughter of an Englishwoman and a Scottish-Jewish father, Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. After her marriage in 1938, she lived for some years in Central Africa, a period rarely reflected in her work. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. She has been a magazine editor and written poetry and literary criticism. Spark has lived in London's Camberwell section, the setting of The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), but now makes her home in New York. Her novels reflect her conversion to Roman Catholicism. (Bowker Author Biography) Writer Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918. In 1934-1935 she took a course in commercial correspondence and précis writing at Heriot-Watt College. After her marriage in 1937, she lived for some years in Central Africa. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. After the war, she began her literary career. She became General Secretary of the Poetry Society, worked as an editor and wrote studies of Mary Shelley, John Masefield and the Brontë sisters. Her first book of poetry, The Fanfarlo and Other Verse, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957. She wrote over twenty books including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School. She won numerous awards and honors including the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Mandelbaum Gate, the 1992 U. S. Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award, the 1997 David Cohen British Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and in 1993 she became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to literature. The Scottish Arts Council created the Muriel Spark International Fellowship in 2004. She died on April 13, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) — biographie de Le bel âge de miss Brodie… (plus d'informations)
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Œuvres de Muriel Spark
Le bel âge de miss Brodie 4,956 exemplaire(s), 161 critiques
Memento Mori 1,654 exemplaire(s), 61 critiques
Les célibataires 1,248 exemplaire(s), 56 critiques
Le pisseur de copie 1,203 exemplaire(s), 55 critiques
La place du conducteur 901 exemplaire(s), 49 critiques
Intentions suspectes 795 exemplaire(s), 26 critiques
L'ingénieur culturel 690 exemplaire(s), 21 critiques
Complices et comparses 559 exemplaire(s), 24 critiques
A bonne école 511 exemplaire(s), 25 critiques
The Mandelbaum Gate 484 exemplaire(s), 12 critiques
Les Consolateurs 479 exemplaire(s), 22 critiques
Le banquet 462 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques
L'abbesse de crewe 443 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques
The Bachelors 429 exemplaire(s), 15 critiques
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's… 335 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques
The Public Image 293 exemplaire(s), 7 critiques
The Only Problem 273 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques
Not to Disturb 262 exemplaire(s), 8 critiques
Territorial Rights 258 exemplaire(s), 4 critiques
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography 256 exemplaire(s), 6 critiques
Reality and Dreams 226 exemplaire(s), 10 critiques
Robinson 224 exemplaire(s), 11 critiques
The Takeover 208 exemplaire(s), 10 critiques
Mary Shelley 205 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
Une serre sur l'east river 195 exemplaire(s), 9 critiques
The Stories of Muriel Spark 119 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Portobello Road And Other Stories 119 exemplaire(s)
All the Stories of Muriel Spark 118 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Complete Short Stories 107 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories 88 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Snobs (Pocket Penguins 70's) 85 exemplaire(s)
The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark 65 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Muriel Spark Omnibus 1 62 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Muriel Spark Omnibus 2 57 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories 43 exemplaire(s)
Voices at Play 35 exemplaire(s)
The Informed Air: Essays 34 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
All the Poems of Muriel Spark 32 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Collected Stories of Muriel Spark 32 exemplaire(s)
Memento mori, and The ballad of Peckham Rye 28 exemplaire(s)
The Essence of the Brontës 26 exemplaire(s)
Emily Brontë: her life and work 24 exemplaire(s)
Selected Stories (Pocket Classics) 24 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Memonto Mori and The Girls of Slender Means 21 exemplaire(s)
A Muriel Spark trio: The comforters, The ballad of Peckham Rye, Memento… 20 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Ticky la très jolie pendule 19 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Golden Fleece 18 exemplaire(s)
Aiding and Abetting & The Go-Away Bird 18 exemplaire(s)
Doctors of Philosophy: A Play 18 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Bang-bang You're Dead and Other Stories 17 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
MURIEL SPARK Collected Stories I. 14 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Muriel Spark Omnibus 1 & 2 13 exemplaire(s)
Memento Mori; The Girls of Slender Means; A Far Cry From Kensington 11 exemplaire(s)
John Masefield 10 exemplaire(s)
A good comb: the sayings of Muriel Spark 10 exemplaire(s)
Complete Poems 10 exemplaire(s)
Two by Muriel Spark: The ballad of Peckham Rye. The bachelors 10 exemplaire(s)
Muriel Spark Omnibus 4 9 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Walking on Air (Sylph Cahiers No. 2) 9 exemplaire(s)
The Brontë Letters (Directeur de publication) 8 exemplaire(s)
Novelists' Theatre: Penguin Plays (Playwright, quelques éditions) 8 exemplaire(s)
Collected Poems 7 exemplaire(s)
Muriel Spark Omnibus 3 6 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Spark's Satire 6 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Hanging Judge 5 exemplaire(s)
Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems (Panther Books) 5 exemplaire(s)
Hundertundelf Jahre ohne Chauffeur 4 exemplaire(s)
De zwarte Madonna en andere verhalen 4 exemplaire(s)
Spark's Europe 4 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Observing Eye: The Sayings of Muriel Spark 3 exemplaire(s)
Tribute to Wordsworth: a Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the… (Directeur de publication) 3 exemplaire(s)
The Fanfarlo & Other Verse 3 exemplaire(s)
You Should Have Seen the Mess 2 exemplaire(s)
The Seraph and the Zambesi 2 exemplaire(s)
The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life & Other Stories 2 exemplaire(s)
The Portobello Road [short story] 2 exemplaire(s)
Rose di Scozia 2 exemplaire(s)
Memento mori. Miss Jean Brodie oma parimas eas 2 exemplaire(s)
My Best Mary: The Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2 exemplaire(s)
The Letters of the Brontës; a Selection 1 exemplaire
A Imagem Pública 1 exemplaire
RAPARIGAS DE ESCASSOS RECURSOS 1 exemplaire
La posesión 1 exemplaire
Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse 1 exemplaire
Chimes 1 exemplaire
The quest for lavishes ghast 1 exemplaire
The Leaf-Sweeper 1 exemplaire
 Spark Muriel 1 exemplaire
Winter's Tales: New Series Three 1 exemplaire
The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life 1 exemplaire
Madam X 1 exemplaire
The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (England Versus England) 1 exemplaire
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Également par Muriel Spark
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contributeur) 403 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Christmas Stories 230 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributeur) 176 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (Contributeur) 155 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Pan Book of Horror Stories (Contributeur) 147 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (Contributeur) 144 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Contributeur) 133 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 117 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (Contributeur) 117 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contributeur) 113 exemplaire(s)
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contributeur) 98 exemplaire(s)
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (Contributeur) 97 exemplaire(s)
The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributeur) 94 exemplaire(s)
7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contributeur) 87 exemplaire(s)
The Treasury of English Short Stories (Contributeur) 80 exemplaire(s)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 74 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contributeur) 71 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 71 exemplaire(s)
Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (Contributeur) 70 exemplaire(s)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 67 exemplaire(s)
The New Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contributeur) 66 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 63 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contributeur) 63 exemplaire(s)
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (Contributeur) 58 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1969 film] (Original book) 57 exemplaire(s)
Mystery for Christmas (Contributeur) 49 exemplaire(s)
Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (Contributeur) 49 exemplaire(s)
Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic… (Contributeur) 49 exemplaire(s), 3 critiques
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 48 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contributeur) 46 exemplaire(s)
65 Great Murder Mysteries (Contributeur) 35 exemplaire(s)
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (Contributeur) 34 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (Contributeur) 34 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Haunting Women (Contributeur) 34 exemplaire(s)
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Contributeur) 33 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contributeur) 32 exemplaire(s)
Realizations: Newman's Own Selection of His Sermons (Avant-propos) 25 exemplaire(s)
Studies in Fiction (Contributeur) 22 exemplaire(s), 1 critique
Letters of John Henry Newman: A Selection Edited and Introduced by Derek… (Directeur de publication) 20 exemplaire(s)
Classic Detective Stories (Contributeur) 20 exemplaire(s), 2 critiques
New Writing 13 (Contributeur) 18 exemplaire(s)
Modern Women Poets (Contributeur) 13 exemplaire(s)
Women Writing: An Anthology (Contributeur) 11 exemplaire(s)
The Other voice : Scottish women's writing since 1808 : an anthology (Contributeur) 8 exemplaire(s)
Cats: Fifteen Complete Stories and Poems (Contributeur) 5 exemplaire(s)
Personal Choice (Contributeur) 2 exemplaire(s)
Modern Choice 2 (Contributeur) 1 exemplaire
The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Education Through Literature (Contributeur) 1 exemplaire
Stories of Adolescence (Contributeur) 1 exemplaire
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