The Novels of Muriel Spark

Here, in two handsome volumes, are ten celebrated novels by Muriel Spark. Available singly and as a boxed set, The Novels of Muriel Spark is both a collector's item for Spark's loyal following and an ideal introduction for new readers. Volume 1 begins with Spark's best-selling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), whose Scottish schoolmistress remains one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction, and follows it with The Comforters, her first novel (1957), The Only Problem (1984), The Driver's Seat (1970), and Memento Mori (1959), a comic and macabre study of old age. Volume 2 continues with Loitering with Intent (1981), a fascinating story of how art and life imitate each other; The Girls of Slender Means (1963), whose resourceful young heroines of war-ravaged London are of Spark's own generation; The Abbess of Crewe (1973), the tale of a Watergate-style power struggle ingeniously set in a conven Volume 1: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / The Comforters / The Only Problem / The Driver's Seat / Memento Mori Volume 2: Loitering with Intent / The Girls of Slender Means / The Abbess of Crewe / The Bachelors / The Ballad of Peckham Rye