The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)

This article is about the 1961 novel. For adaptations of this work, see The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
First edition cover
AuthorMuriel Spark
Cover artistVictor Reinganum
LanguageEnglish
Set inEdinburgh, 1930s
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
1961
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages170
OCLC1068257134
823.914
LC ClassPR6037 .P29

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.[1] 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.[2] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie No. 76 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

  1. ^ Frank Kermode, Introduction, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004, pp. xi
  2. ^ "All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 19 October 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2010.