Muriel Spark

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation....

Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing their memoirs in advance, or poor fools....

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem...

A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium...the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark's supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe....

The lady inhabitants of a London ladies' hostel emerging from the shadow of World War II do their best to act as if the world were back to normal....

The Complete Short Stories is a collection to be loved and cherished, from one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century. All stories performed unabridged by three star readers....

Muriel Spark has created a many-faceted novel, both comic and serious, enriched by a wealth of information.....

Muriel Spark's blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, "Remember, you must die"....

The scandalously outspoken Miss Brodie, an eccentric teacher, makes big waves in the conservative Scottish school, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring....

College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes 17-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary...

Die junge Mrs. Hawkins ist eine wunderbare Frau, die Ruhe in Person und stets für alle da. Mit ihrer mütterlichen und lebensfrohen Opulenz gibt sie dem erfolglosen Londoner Verlagshaus, bei dem sie arbeitet, Halt und Kraft.

Award-winning British author Dame Muriel Spark is internationally renowned for her witty and engaging tales of life. Short and sophisticated, Reality and Dreams follows the career of self-centered, middle-aged film director Tom Richards. As he turns colorful incidents from his life into glittery...

À Édimbourg dans les années trente, Mademoiselle Brodie enseigne dans une des écoles de filles les plus huppées d'Écosse. Ses méthodes...

Die aus Bayern stammende Psychologin Dr. Hildegard Wolf hat sich nach einigen Jahren in verschiedenen Ländern in Paris niedergelassen und...