Description

Rating: *****

Tags: goldenlist, ENGL, novela, PDF_file

Publisher: 219

Added: April 4, 2020

Modified: November 5, 2021

Summary

Review

"A gloriously witty and polished vignette." -- -- Times Literary Supplement

"A perfect book." -- -- Chicago Tribune

"Admirably written, beautifully constructed, extremely amusing, and deeply serious." -- -- Saturday Review

"A gloriously witty and polished vignette." -- Times Literary Supplement

"A perfect book." -- Chicago Tribune

"A remarkable novel." -- New Statesman

"Admirably written, beautifully constructed, extremely amusing, and deeply serious." -- Saturday Review

"Intelligent, witty...Spark's powers of invention are apparently inexhaustible." -- Commonweal

"Muriel Spark is one of the few writers on either side of the Atlantic with enough resources, daring, and stamina to be altering, as well as feeding, the fiction machine." -- John Updike, The New Yorker

"Remarkable: Surprises are systematically reduced until there is only one left, and it is like the stab of a stiletto." -- The Spectator

Product Description

The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students.