Book Review

 

 

TIME Summary : A slender novel but far from flimsy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie enrolls the reader at Edinburgh's fictional Marcia Blaine School for Girls under the tutelage of one Jean Brodie, a magnetic, unconventional instructor whose favorite pupils—"the Brodie set"—are set apart from the rest of the student body by their superior attitudes and their intellectual awareness. The archly, tartly narrated adventures of these young girls and their eccentric, autocratic leader form a delightful group portrait, and something more: an immortal parable of the temptations of charisma and the dangers of power.

Tonight I finished The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Although it was small, it was a little slow. It was different from most books I've read in that it clearly told you how the book was going to end long before the book was over. The author spent the rest of the book developing the characters and then the book abruptly ends. It was an interesting little book, I'm not sure I would recommend it to anyone though.