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Muriel Camberg was born in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh, the daughter of Bernard Camberg, an engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Maud (née Uezzell). [2] [3] Her father was Jewish, born in Edinburgh of Lithuanian immigrant parents, and her English mother had been raised Anglican.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. [1] It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature.
The Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by British author Muriel Spark.It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice. [3]
The Public Image is a novel published in 1968 by Scottish author Muriel Spark and shortlisted for the Booker Prize the following year. [2] It is set in Rome and concerns Annabel Christopher, an up-and-coming film actress. Annabel carefully cultivates her image to keep her career on course, managing to mask her lack of talent.
The Mandelbaum Gate is a novel written by Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1965. The title refers to the Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, around which the novel is set. In 1965, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize that year. [1] In 2012, it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black.
The Comforters is the first novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark.She drew on experiences as a recent convert to Catholicism and having suffered hallucinations due to using Dexedrine, an amphetamine then available over the counter for dieting.
Pages in category "Novels by Muriel Spark" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The Abbess of Crewe;
Loitering with Intent is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark.Published in 1981 by The Bodley Head, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize that year. [1] It contains many autobiographical references to Spark's early career and was reprinted in 2001 by New Directions, in the US, and in 2007 by Virago Press in the UK (with a foreword by Mark Lawson).