Most Popular Books by Muriel Spark

DIVDIVThe only play by famed Scottish author Muriel Spark takes on the dilemmas of two intellectually ambitious women in 1960s England /divDIV/divDIVIn a home overlooking London’s Regent’s Canal in the 1960s, two scholars debate the choices they have made with their lives. Catherine Delfont was one of the most promising minds of her generation, but after earning her PhD she gave up her research to marry a well-regarded economist and raise a family. Her cousin Leonora stayed in academia and became a successful classicist, able to observe both the breadth of history and the lives of others with brilliant, cool detachment. Together, they face the sacrifices they have made as women and intellectuals./divDIV /divDIVFirst performed in London in 1962 and later in Scandinavia, where it was produced by Ingmar Bergman, Doctors of Philosophy is a fascinating artifact of early second-wave feminism./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland./div/div

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Harvey Gotham refuses to believe it when the French police tell him that his estranged wife is a dangerous terrorist. As far as the police are concerned, that only serves to throw suspicion on Gotham himself.

Three survivors of an airline crash find themselves on a small volcanic island named Robinson. An eccentric mystery story.

The brevity of Muriel Spark’s novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark’s most celebrated novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils. The Girls of Slender Means is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. The Driver’s Seat follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And The Only Problem is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance.

In tutti e tre i racconti che compongono questa raccolta Muriel Spark ci proietta in uno scenario molto diverso da quelli altamente anglici a cui ci ha abituati: l''Africa, dove si trasferì, giovane sposa, nel 1937, rimanendovi suo malgrado, a causa della guerra, fino al 1944. L''Africa Nera di un''asfittica colonia inglese popolata di piantatori con velleità letterarie e mogli brille e incarognite che dormono sempre con la pistola sul comodino, «luogo feroce» che tira fuori il «lato più crudele» di ciascuno, e dove avvengono quei continui omicidi fra bianchi che tanto incuriosiscono chi, in patria, ne legge placidamente le cronache sul giornale bevendo il tè del mattino. Qui incontriamo Sybil che, catapultata nell''altro emisfero, vi trova proprio la compagna di scuola che detestava di più; e Daphne, ossessionata dal grido funereo e premonitore dell''Ucu00adu00adu00adcelu00adlo va''-via: giovani donne che guardano con spietato disincanto il malevolo consorzio umano che le circonda, accomunate da quel senso di fiera diversità che accompagnò Muriel Spark per tutta la vita.

Because Ticky, the clock, is extremely wise, the professor and his friends vote to bestow upon him the title of Professor. But Ticky declines the honor.

Tom Richards has fallen off a crane while directing his latest movie, The Hamburger Girl, fracturing some ribs and a hip. A comic procession of doctors, nurses, and relatives files through his hospital room. Another director replaces him at the studio, and everything in his cinematic dream is being changed - the screenplay, the title, the plot. Tom is baffled and furious. His children''s marriages are coming apart, and who can be certain of his own? People everywhere are losing their jobs. His real life and his creative life become ever more displaced while he gradually recovers his health, his balance, and his natural imbalance. Tom''s shrewd wife, Claire; their daughter Marigold, for whom Tom has ambivalent feelings; his beautiful daughter Cora, by his first marriage; and his lovers, family, friends, and colleagues all find themselves revolving in a sexual and economic maelstrom that gradually results in violence. "What we are doing," Tom tells his film crew at last, "is real and not real. We are living in a world where dreams are reality and reality is dreams. In our world everything starts from a dream." Ű

Een vrouwelijke psychiater krijgt binnen een week twee patiënten die beweren dat ze de sinds 1974 voortvluchtige moordenaar Lord Lucan zijn.