Thu Jan 22 23:13:47 2009 UTClccn-n80-38438Novelists, Scottish--20th centuryAuthors, English--20th centuryWomen novelists, Scottish--20th century0.410.510.58Muriel_Sparkn 80038438oca00420531aSpark, MurielStanford, Muriel Sarah SparkCamberg, Muriel SarahSpark, Mi︠u︡riėllccn-n50-23250Stanford, Derekedtlccn-no96-18852May, Nadianrtlccn-n79-61063Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft1797-1851lccn-n88-70036Lucan, Richard John BinghamEarl of1934-lccn-n79-18755Brontë, Emily1818-1848lccn-nr2006-14583Naujack, Petertrllccn-n80-67094Masefield, John1878-1967lccn-no99-80690NetLibrary, Inclccn-n82-254314Schnack, Elisabethtrllccn-n88-28190McEwan, GeraldineprfSpark, MurielSpark, Muriel100Didactic fictionBildungsromansSatireHumorous fictionRadio and television novelsLove storiesMystery fictionBlack humor (Literature)War storiesDomestic fictionAbbesses, ChristianBenedictine nunsWomenPsychological fictionLarge type booksPractical jokesUpper classDinners and diningCreative writing--Study and teachingSwitzerland--LausanneMarried peopleTeenage boysSchoolsOlder peopleAutobiography--Societies, etc.Women novelistsExtortionMotion picture producers and directorsShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,--1797-1851CatholicsAuthors, EnglishLiterature publishingWomen editorsWidowsPublishers and publishingEnglandUxoricideMurderersFugitives from justicePsychotherapist and patientMissing personsLucan, Richard John Bingham,--Earl of,--1934-GirlsNovelists, ScottishManners and customsLiteratureWomen teachersFiction--AuthorshipYoung womenItalyTeacher-student relationshipsBiographyEngland--LondonGreat BritainHistoryWomen and literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.ScotlandSpark, MurielFiction193319401947194819491950195119521953195419551956195719581959196019611962196319641965196619671968196919701971197219731974197519761977197819791980198119821983198419851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200873253book823.914pr6037.p29ocn001381809ocn176879927ocn000098824ocn000375474ocn000673434ocn001929891ocn001931806ocn061585594ocn000505933ocn004959570ocn000355456ocn006596835ocn264672858ocn186146564409131588Спарк, М3052438987ocn000366922sw000327390:lccn-n80-38438Truebook19620.48Spark, MurielBildungsromansLove storiesRadio and television novels

The story of an eccentric and scandalously outspoken teacher in a conservative Edinburgh girls school during the 1930's.

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This book evokes the rich world of London in the 1950's and in particular deals with the events and characters of the bedsit region of Kensington.

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Loitering about 1949 London, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job as secretary to the odd Autobiographical Association. But when its pompous director, Sir Quentin, steals the manuscript of Fleur's new novel, life begins to imitate art, including murder.

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A voice on the telephone warns, "Remember, you must die." The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon ten of Lettie's oldest friends also become targets of Death's anonymous herald. A bizarre investigation lays bare an intricate network of deception and disloyalty that binds together the vulnerable group of aging eccentrics.

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Just after World War II in a London ladies' hostel its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal, practicing elocution and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown.

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A British film director falls off a crane during the shooting of a film and while he is in hospital, others muscle in on his work and on his girlfriends. With the help of his understanding wife, who also has her lovers, he recovers and regains control of the film.

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Ten stylish Londoners assemble for a smart dinner party - a knot of people with pasts and connections that at first seem few but are later found to be many. As the wine flows and conversation continues, the guests anticipate the arrival of the distinguished Hilda Damien, a rich widow, who is expected to look in after dinner. But Hilda is inexplicably absent for a very grim reason.

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An election has been held at the Abbey of Crewe, and the new Lady Abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity. But her defeated rival has not lost gracefully.

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Venice is the setting of this comedy of manners. Robert arrives during the off-season to study art and start a new life. Soon lovers, ex-lovers and family members turn up to complicate affairs.

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College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction--From the publisher.

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Annabel Christopher, a talented actress jealous of her image, is on indifferent terms with her disturbed husband, Frederick. When Frederick apparently commits suicide, his death releases leters accusing Annabel of complicity in an orgy and other immoralities, of which she knows nothing.

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A collection of short stories by Muriel Spark.

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A wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up.

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