Muriel Spark Libros

Con estilo descarnado y seco, Muriel Spark narra en El asiento del conductor las últimas horas de Lise, una turista nórdica que se va de vacaciones a un país meridional del que nunca regresará. Como en alguna ocasión declaró la escritora escocesa, su intención al escribir fue la de «aterrorizar deleitando», máxima que se cumple de modo magistral en esta turbadora novela. De la novela David Lodge afirma: «Algunas de sus mejores obras, más que novelas, son relatos que, por su brevedad, cabe leer en una trepidante sentada. El asiento del conductor es un caso ejemplar, un extraordinario tour de force, la historia de un crimen vista al revés». Por su parte The New Yorker señala: «Una obra maestra vidriosa y pérfida. El asiento del conductor [es] de una crudeza rayana en lo espeluznante».

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.