Muriel Spark, Author . New Directions $19.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1494-0
Coming just four years after the cloth edition of Open to the Public: New and Collected Stories, which introduced readers to 10 new Spark tales, this collection tacks on four slight additions and brings the total of Spark's stories to 41. The...
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Muriel Spark, Author . Doubleday $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-51282-4
A swift, blithe comedy of sexual and creative jealousy plays out on the grounds of a dubious finishing school in Dame Spark's gem of a novel, her 22nd. College Sunrise, founded by would-be novelist Rowland Mahler and his practical wife, Nina...
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $9.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1246-5
A movie star in Rome loses touch with reality in Spark's witty expose of superficiality, first published in 1968. (May)
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1408-7
Touched with a Satanic glamour and a manner so disarming that grown men dissolve in tears at his slightest provocation, the Pied Piper of Spark's charming 1960 satire captivates the residents of Peckham, a small London suburb. Dougal Douglas is,...
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $13.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1474-2
Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the ...
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $13.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1576-3
Renowned for decades for her sparely ironic novels, Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; A Far Cry from Kensington) began as a poet, and has lately returned to the writing of verse. All the Poems of Muriel Spark mixes her older rhyming...
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1549-7
The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark collects eight chilling tales by the author of Memento Mori. Notable selections include ""The Hanging Judge"" and ""The Portobello Road.""
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Muriel Spark, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-525-24535-3
This is a revised and welcome version of Spark's acclaimed first book, Child of Light, which was published in England in 1951 and only now appears here. Mary Shelleydaughter of two progressive thinkers, the philosopher William Godwin and the...
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Muriel Spark, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.45 (189p) ISBN 978-0-395-47694-9
Even the title is witty in this latest of Spark's delightful novels, bearing as it does at least three layers of ambiguity. It is a tale told in a splendidly commonsensical way by Mrs. Hawkins, a buxom young war widow who is a tower of strength in a
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Muriel Spark, Author Plume Books $8.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-452-00951-6
``This is a revised and welcome version of Spark's acclaimed first book, Child of Light ,'' wrote PW of this biography that covers the facts of Shelley's life and brings Spark's ``astute critical intelligence to bear'' on Shelley's works,...
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Muriel Spark, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-51101-5
The peerless author of A Far Cry from Kensington brings to her latest work a comedian's split-second timing and a classical fascination with fatality. Ten stylish Londoners assemble for a dinner party: as Charterhouse, the all-too-well-named butler,
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Muriel Spark, Author Avon Books $9 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71553-4
Spark demonstrates a comic's split-second timing and a classical fascination for fatality in this darkly humorous tale of 10 stylish Londoners beset by murder. (May)
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Muriel Spark, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-395-65372-2
Spark's enchanting memoir flickers with the tart judgments, gimlet wit, bizarre episodes and odd twists of fate that distinguish her fiction. Born in 1918 to a Scottish Jewish engineer father and an English Presbyterian mother full of superstitions...
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Muriel Spark, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-83811-2
The important thing about a new Spark novel is hardly ever the plot or even the characters, but rather that inimitable authorial tone: crisp, assured, utterly unsentimental but always full of delicious surprises. Her hero in the present refreshingly
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Muriel Spark, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1367-7
By turns (and twists) comic, whimsical and sinister (but always sparkingly sharp), this latest collection of short stories by the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Reality and Dreams nicely reflects her marvelously varied career. Earlier...
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Muriel Spark, Author Doubleday Books $21 (176p) ISBN 978-0-385-50153-8
Terse, astringent and blessed with a wicked satiric wit, Spark has been casting a jaundiced eye on British society in more than 20 works of fiction, including Memento Mori and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Here she spins an inspired ""what-if""...
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