Muriel Spark Libri

Se Muriel Spark, come molti indizi lasciano ritenere, ha sognato un testa a testa con Agatha Christie, mai è arrivata vicino ad affrontarlo, e a vincerlo, come in questo romanzo. Dove un groviglio di trame si dipana da un pretesto già irresistibile: le riunioni periodiche di un inaudito circolo spiritistico frequentato dal luciferino medium Patrick Seton, in cui si danno convegno personaggi molto diversi fra loro (e, va da sé, diversamente eccentrici) ma uniti dal medesimo stato civile, e più ancora da un’avversione a cambiarlo così tenace da condurre, se le circostanze lo richiedono, anche al delitto. Per di più questa situazione di partenza, già suggestiva quanto basta, viene immersa in una Londra trasformata con pochi tocchi in una geografia metafisica: sarà dunque impossibile non essere subito presi da questo romanzo, e altrettanto impossibile non leggerlo con l’immensa gratitudine che va tributata ai – rarissimi – autori per i quali scrivere è inventare un crimine e al tempo stesso sorriderne.

First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems.

It is perhaps her short stories that demonstrate her gifts best: wit, perception, acute characterisation, elegance and precision. They mark her out as one of the finest writers of her generation Observer

In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A pioneering work of science fiction, it captured the popular imagination from the start. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley lived an unconventional life marred by tragedy. At sixteen she scandalised ..

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Muriel Spark's Memento Mori, published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and incisive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'Remember, you must die' - opening up dark secrets, intrigues, duplicity and tragedy from their pasts.

Spark's poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar into glittering moments of strangeness, revealing the dark - and light - music beneath the mundane.

Muriel Sparks's celebrated autobiography with a preface by the poet and biographer Elaine Feinstein.

Celebrate Muriel Spark's hundredth birthday by imbibing a delicious glass of her bubbly wit in this brilliant, wry collection of her wise words.

The Only Problem, Muriel Spark's seventeenth novel, was first published in 1984.