The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark · 1961
Literary Fiction · ranked #121 in category
Miss Jean Brodie, an Edinburgh schoolteacher in the 1930s, selects a group of pupils as the 'crème de la crème' and devotes herself to shaping them — educating them in her own aesthetic and political enthusiasms, including her admiration for Mussolini. Spark's acerbic, perfectly crafted novel asks about the ethics of influence, the relationship between charisma and fascism, and who ultimately betrays whom.
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