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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780060931735
ISBN: 0060931736
Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: February 01, 1999
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date: February 03, 1999
Sales Rank: 61610
Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students.
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Years ago I saw a TV production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." If memory serves, Geraldine McEwan played the title role. I don't remember much about it. Time and again, I would encounter the book on lists like "1001 Books To Read Before You Die." Since this is one of the shorter ones on the those lists, I'm surprised it took me several years to read it. Correction: I waited several years to start it. Reading this book only takes one or two sittings.
I liked the overall Edinburgh ... Read More
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Don't give up on this book if you don't like it the first time you read it. It improves with age...your age.
At 14, I just didn't "get" the book. Going to an English all-girls' school I could absolutely identify with the opening passage relating to the dreaded Panama hat, and like many of the girls in the book, boys to us were pretty much a foreign country. However, apart from those aspects I felt the book was irrelevant and rather dated compared to my school days in the late 1970s.
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Imaginatively asking and answering questions to and for her students, protagonist Miss Brodie leads her set of six young women from the ages of 10 to 18 -- a journey that they define to be the "main influence of their school days."
Each girl in the set is different. Like the seven dwarfs, you could nickname the six girls: Rose Stanley (Sexy); Monica Douglas (Brainy); Eunice Gardner (Splits); Sandy Stranger (Pscho); Jenny Gray (Actor) and Mary MacGregor (Sleepy). This eclectic group of ... Read More
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This book is definitely a unique read. It is not afraid to "tell it like it is," you may say. However, I found myself wanting to like the characters, especially Jean Brodie, much more than I actually did. I'm not saying that none of the characters were likeable, but I did have a difficult time feeling any sympathy or compassion for any of them.
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This is art. There is not one unnecessary word in this novel. Miss Brodie is a mystery throughout the story and you just go on pondering about the characters long after it is finished.
And, you: Watch the film starring Maggie Smith, too. It's absolutely a masterpiece.
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