Muriel Spark 
All the Stories of Muriel Spark 

Four brand new tales are now added to New Directions’ original 1997 cloth edition of Open to the Public.

This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of her forty-one marvelous stories, catnip for all Spark fans.
All the Stories of Muriel Spark spans Dame Muriel Spark’s entire career to date and displays all her signature stealth, originality, beauty, elegance, wit, and shock value.No writer commands so exhilarating a style—playful and rigorous, cheerful and venomous, hilariously acute and coolly supernatural. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, imaginary chauffeurs, and persistent guests. Regarding one story (‘The Portobello Road’), Stephen Schiff said in
The New Yorker: ‘Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: ‘He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.’ It’s a nasty piece of work, that sentence.’

Over de auteur

Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was the author of dozens of novels, including The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Driver’s Seat, and many more. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993.