Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in the original sense of the Latin verb educere, "to lead out", gives her students lessons about her personal love life and travels, promoting art history, classical studies, and fascism. In 1930s Edinburgh, six 10-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice, are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being "in prime," as their teacher. 76 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie No. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to present. The character of Miss Jean Brodie brought Spark international fame and brought her into the first rank of contemporary Scottish literature. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.
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