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....

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 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....

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....

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....

Nobody writing has a keener instinct than Muriel Spark for hypocrisy, self-delusion, and moral ambiguity....

The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down....

Short and sophisticated, Reality and Dreams follows the career of self-centered, middle-aged film director Tom Richards....

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

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