The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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A thin novel however a long way from shaky, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie enlists the peruser at Edinburgh’s anecdotal Marcia Blaine School for Girls under the tutelage of one Jean Brodie, an attractive, capricious educator whose most loved understudies—”the Brodie set”— will be separate from the remainder of the understudy body by their boss perspectives and their scholarly mindfulness. The archly, poignantly described undertakings of these little youngsters and their unusual, imperious pioneer structure a superb gathering representation, and something else: an eternal story of the enticements of magnetism and the perils of intensity. — L.G.