Muriel Spark (1918–2006)

Autor de La primavera de una solterona

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Muriel Spark has been called "our most chillingly comic writer since Evelyn Waugh" by the London Spectator, and the New Yorker praised her novel Memento Mori ri (1959) as "flawless." Her fiction is marked by its remarkable diversity, wit, and craftsmanship. "She happens to be, by some rare concatenation of grace and talent, an artist, a serious---and most accomplished---writer, a moralist engaged with the human predicament, wildly entertaining, and a joy to read" (SRSR). She became widely known in the United States when the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). Set in Edinburgh in the 1930s, this is the story of a schoolteacher, her unorthodox approach to life, and its effect on her select group of adolescent girls. Though their idol turns out to have feet of clay, she leaves an indelible mark on their lives. The Girls of Slender Means (1963), also warmly praised, is a sardonic look at the vivacity of youth and the anxieties of young womanhood. Reviewing The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) for the New Republic, Honor Tracy wrote: "There is an abundance here of invention, humor, poetry, wit, perception, that all but takes the breath away. . . . The story, in fact, is pure adventure, with the suspense as artfully maintained as anywhere by Graham Greene, but this is only one ingredient. There are memorable descriptions of the Holy Land, fascinating insights into the jumble of intrigue and piety surrounding the Holy Places, and penetrating studies of Arabs. . . . In each of [Spark's] novels heretofore one of her qualities has tended to predominate over the others. Here for the first time they are all impressively marshaled side by side, resulting in her best work so far." The daughter of an Englishwoman and a Scottish-Jewish father, Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh. After her marriage in 1938, she lived for some years in Central Africa, a period rarely reflected in her work. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. She has been a magazine editor and written poetry and literary criticism. Spark has lived in London's Camberwell section, the setting of The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960), but now makes her home in New York. Her novels reflect her conversion to Roman Catholicism. (Bowker Author Biography) Writer Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh on February 1, 1918. In 1934-1935 she took a course in commercial correspondence and précis writing at Heriot-Watt College. After her marriage in 1937, she lived for some years in Central Africa. During World War II, she returned to Britain, where she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office after the breakup of her marriage. After the war, she began her literary career. She became General Secretary of the Poetry Society, worked as an editor and wrote studies of Mary Shelley, John Masefield and the Brontë sisters. Her first book of poetry, The Fanfarlo and Other Verse, was published in 1952 and her first novel, The Comforters, was published in 1957. She wrote over twenty books including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School. She won numerous awards and honors including the 1965 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Mandelbaum Gate, the 1992 U. S. Ingersoll Foundation T. S. Eliot Award, the 1997 David Cohen British Literature Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and in 1993 she became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to literature. The Scottish Arts Council created the Muriel Spark International Fellowship in 2004. She died on April 13, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) — biografía de La primavera de una solterona… (más)

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Obras de Muriel Spark

La primavera de una solterona 4,968 copias, 162 reseñas

Memento mori 1,667 copias, 66 reseñas

Las Señoritas de escasos medios 1,261 copias, 56 reseñas

Muy lejos de Kensington 1,216 copias, 55 reseñas

El asiento del conductor 920 copias, 49 reseñas

Merodeando con aviesa intención 798 copias, 26 reseñas

The Ballad of Peckham Rye 702 copias, 21 reseñas

Los Encubridores 562 copias, 24 reseñas

The Finishing School 512 copias, 25 reseñas

The Mandelbaum Gate 488 copias, 12 reseñas

Los consoladores 485 copias, 23 reseñas

El banquete 462 copias, 15 reseñas

La abadesa de Crewe 447 copias, 15 reseñas

The Bachelors 430 copias, 15 reseñas

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Girls of Slender Means / The Driver's… 344 copias, 11 reseñas

La imagen pública 295 copias, 8 reseñas

El Único Problema 276 copias, 4 reseñas

Not to Disturb 265 copias, 8 reseñas

Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography 260 copias, 6 reseñas

Territorial Rights 260 copias, 4 reseñas

Reality and Dreams 229 copias, 10 reseñas

Robinson 227 copias, 12 reseñas

The Takeover 211 copias, 10 reseñas

Mary Shelley 210 copias, 3 reseñas

The Hothouse by the East River 197 copias, 9 reseñas

The Portobello Road And Other Stories 120 copias

All the Stories of Muriel Spark 118 copias, 1 reseña

The Stories of Muriel Spark 118 copias, 1 reseña

The Complete Short Stories 110 copias, 3 reseñas

The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories 90 copias, 1 reseña

The Snobs (Pocket Penguins 70's) 84 copias

The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark 64 copias, 2 reseñas

Muriel Spark Omnibus 1 62 copias, 2 reseñas

Muriel Spark Omnibus 2 57 copias, 1 reseña

Open to the Public: New & Collected Stories 45 copias

The Informed Air: Essays 35 copias, 2 reseñas

Voices at Play 35 copias

The Collected Stories of Muriel Spark 32 copias

All the Poems of Muriel Spark 32 copias, 3 reseñas

Memento mori, and The ballad of Peckham Rye 28 copias

The Essence of the Brontës 26 copias

Selected Stories (Pocket Classics) 25 copias, 1 reseña

Emily Brontë: her life and work 24 copias

A Muriel Spark trio: The comforters, The ballad of Peckham Rye, Memento… 21 copias, 1 reseña

Memonto Mori and The Girls of Slender Means 21 copias

The Very Fine Clock 19 copias, 2 reseñas

The Golden Fleece 18 copias

Doctors of Philosophy: A Play 18 copias, 2 reseñas

Aiding and Abetting & The Go-Away Bird 18 copias

Bang-bang You're Dead and Other Stories 17 copias, 1 reseña

MURIEL SPARK Collected Stories I. 14 copias, 1 reseña

Muriel Spark Omnibus 1 & 2 13 copias

Memento Mori; The Girls of Slender Means; A Far Cry From Kensington 11 copias

Complete Poems 10 copias

John Masefield 10 copias

A good comb: the sayings of Muriel Spark 10 copias

Two by Muriel Spark: The ballad of Peckham Rye. The bachelors 10 copias

Walking on Air (Sylph Cahiers No. 2) 9 copias

Muriel Spark Omnibus 4 9 copias, 1 reseña

The Brontë Letters (Editor) 8 copias

Novelists' Theatre: Penguin Plays (Playwright, algunas ediciones) 8 copias

Collected Poems 7 copias

Muriel Spark Omnibus 3 6 copias, 1 reseña

Spark's Satire 6 copias, 1 reseña

The Hanging Judge 5 copias

Going Up to Sotheby's and Other Poems (Panther Books) 5 copias

Hundertundelf Jahre ohne Chauffeur 4 copias

Spark's Europe 4 copias, 1 reseña

De zwarte Madonna en andere verhalen 4 copias

The Fanfarlo & Other Verse 3 copias

Tribute to Wordsworth: a Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the… (Editor) 3 copias

Memento mori. Miss Jean Brodie oma parimas eas 2 copias

My Best Mary: The Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 2 copias

The Seraph and the Zambesi 2 copias

The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life & Other Stories 2 copias

Rose di Scozia 2 copias

You Should Have Seen the Mess 2 copias

The Portobello Road [short story] 2 copias

The Observing Eye: The Sayings of Muriel Spark 2 copias

The Leaf-Sweeper 1 copia

Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse 1 copia

The Letters of the Brontës; a Selection 1 copia

The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (England Versus England) 1 copia

Madam X 1 copia

The quest for lavishes ghast 1 copia

Winter's Tales: New Series Three 1 copia

Chimes 1 copia

Spark Muriel 1 copia

The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life 1 copia

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También por Muriel Spark

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (Contribuidor) 410 copias, 2 reseñas

Christmas Stories 236 copias, 1 reseña

First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contribuidor) 178 copias, 1 reseña

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (Contribuidor) 158 copias, 3 reseñas

The Pan Book of Horror Stories (Contribuidor) 151 copias, 2 reseñas

Murder & Other Acts of Literature (Contribuidor) 144 copias, 2 reseñas

The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (Contribuidor) 135 copias, 2 reseñas

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 119 copias, 1 reseña

Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (Contribuidor) 118 copias, 3 reseñas

The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (Contribuidor, algunas ediciones) 115 copias

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Contribuidor) 114 copias

The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contribuidor) 99 copias

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (Contribuidor) 99 copias

The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contribuidor) 95 copias

7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contribuidor) 89 copias

The Treasury of English Short Stories (Contribuidor) 80 copias

The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 74 copias, 1 reseña

Women and Fiction: Volume 2 (Contribuidor) 72 copias

The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 71 copias

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Contribuidor) 71 copias, 2 reseñas

The New Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contribuidor) 68 copias, 1 reseña

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 67 copias

The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contribuidor) 64 copias

Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 63 copias, 2 reseñas

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Original book) 57 copias

The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (Contribuidor) 56 copias, 2 reseñas

Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic… (Contribuidor) 50 copias, 3 reseñas

Mystery for Christmas (Contribuidor) 49 copias

Revenge: Short Stories by Women Writers (Contribuidor) 49 copias

The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 48 copias, 1 reseña

An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (Contribuidor) 46 copias

65 Great Murder Mysteries (Contribuidor) 39 copias

Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Contribuidor) 34 copias, 2 reseñas

Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (Contribuidor) 34 copias, 1 reseña

Haunting Women (Contribuidor) 34 copias

Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (Contribuidor) 34 copias, 1 reseña

The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (Contribuidor) 32 copias

Realizations: Newman's Own Selection of His Sermons (Prólogo) 26 copias

Studies in Fiction (Contribuidor) 22 copias, 1 reseña

Letters of John Henry Newman: A Selection Edited and Introduced by Derek… (Editor) 21 copias

Classic Detective Stories (Contribuidor) 21 copias, 3 reseñas

New Writing 13 (Contribuidor) 18 copias

Modern Women Poets (Contribuidor) 13 copias

Women Writing: An Anthology (Contribuidor) 11 copias

The Other voice : Scottish women's writing since 1808 : an anthology (Contribuidor) 9 copias

Cats: Fifteen Complete Stories and Poems (Contribuidor) 5 copias

Personal Choice (Contribuidor) 2 copias

Modern Choice 2 (Contribuidor) 1 copia

The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Education Through Literature (Contribuidor) 1 copia

Stories of Adolescence (Contribuidor) 1 copia

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