Muriel Spark

La porta di Mandelbaum è un romanzo della scrittrice scozzese Muriel Spark pubblicato nel 1965. Il romanzo è stato premiato con il James Tait Black Memorial Prize per la narrativa. Il titolo fa riferimento al checkpoint di Gerusalemme attorno al quale è ambientato il romanzo.

The Bachelors is a novel written in 1960 by the Scottish author Muriel Spark, referred to by The New York Times as "the most gifted and innovative British novelist". It follows a group of British bachelors whose misogynistic world is shattered when they suddenly find themselves the target of blackmail and fraud.

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 …

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. Although completed in late 1955, the book was not published until 1957. A …

Symposium is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, published in 1990. It was regarded by John Mortimer writing in The Sunday Times as one of the best novels of that year.

The Abbess of Crewe is Muriel Spark's razor sharp, wickedly humorous and surreal satire of a real life political scandal - reimagined within the claustrophobic walls of a convent. A steely, Machiavellian nun, secret surveillance, corruption, cloak-and-dagger plotting, rivalries and a rigged election all send the …

Atteggiamento sospetto è un romanzo di Muriel Spark pubblicato nel 1981, anno incui venne nominato tra i finalisti del Booker Prize.

La ballata di Peckham Rye è un romanzo di Muriel Spark del 1960. È la storia di un diabolico giovane scozzese Dougal Douglas, che si trasferisce nel distretto di Peckham a Londra e semina il terrore tra gli abitanti. Il testo attinge al soprannaturale, così come alle questioni dell'emigrazione irlandese e scozzese, e …

The Finishing School is the last novel written by Scottish author Muriel Spark and published by Viking Press in 2004. It concerns 'College Sunrise', a mixed-sex finishing school in Ouchy on the banks of Lake Geneva near Lausanne in Switzerland.