The Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
$70.20
- Hardcover
688 pages
- Release Date
22 December 2025
Summary
Muriel Spark Unveiled: Letters from a Literary Luminary (Volume 1, 1944-1963)
The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.
In 1944, on her return to England after a disastrous marriage, Muriel Spark was unknown as a writer except to a handful of close friends; by 1963 she was the internationally renowned author of seven critically acclaimed, bestselling novels.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349014340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349014345 |
| Author: | Muriel Spark, Dan Gunn |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 22 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 166mm x 48mm |
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About The Author
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark, D.B.E, C. Litt, was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet and novelist, she also wrote children’s books, radio plays, a comedy, ‘Doctors of Philosophy’, first performed in London in 1962, and biographies. She is best known for her stories and many successful novels, including Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Loitering With Intent, The Comforters, A Far Cry from Kensington and The Public Image. For her long career of literary achievement, Muriel Spark won international praise and many awards, including the David Cohen British Literature Award, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Saltire Prize, the Boccaccio Prize for European Literature, the Gold Pen Award and the Italia Prize for dramatic radio. Muriel Spark was given an honorary doctorate of Letters from a number of universities, London, Edinburgh and Oxford among these. She died in 2006.
Dan Gunn is a novelist, critic, and translator, as well as being one of the editors of the four-volume Letters of Samuel Beckett and editor of the Cahiers Series. He is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature & English at the American University of Paris where he directs the Center for Writers & Translators. He was designated in 2017 as editor of Muriel Spark’s letters.
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