В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-„уходи“» и рассказы разных лет.

В однотомник включены лучшие сатирические романы одной из крупнейших современных писательниц Великобритании: «Memento mori», «Мисс Джин Броди в расцвете лет», «Умышленная задержка»; антирасистская повесть «Птичка-«уходи» и рассказы разных лет.

Short story from 'All the stories of Muriel Spark'

A reissue of the 1960 novel which revolves around Dougal Douglas, evil genius and charmer who turns an entire South London community on its head. Murial Spark is the author of more than 15 novels including "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Girls of Slender Means".

ContentsThe Go-Away BirdThe Curtain Blown by the BreezeBang-Bang You’re DeadThe Seraph and the ZambeziThe Pawnbroker’s WifeThe SnobsA Member of the FamilyThe Fortune-TellerThe Fathers’ DaughtersOpen to the PublicThe DragonThe Leaf SweeperHarper and WiltonThe ExecutorAnother Pair of HandsThe Girl I Left Behind MeMiss Pinkerton’s ApocalypseThe Pearly ShadowGoing Up and Coming DownYou Should Have Seen the MessQuest for Lavishes GhastThe Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of LifeDaisy OverendThe House of the Famous PoetThe Playhouse Called RemarkableChimesLadies and GentlemenCome Along, MarjorieThe Twins‘A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter’Christmas FugueThe First Year of My LifeThe Gentile JewessesAlice Long’s DachshundsThe Dark GlassesThe Ormolu ClockThe Portobello RoadThe Black MadonnaThe Thing about Police StationsA Hundred and Eleven Years Without a ChauffeurThe Hanging Judge

Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds.Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."