Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“A perfect book”—the film version won Maggie Smith an Academy award—about a controversial teacher and her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune).

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!”

So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six ...