Volume 11, Number 11 · December 19, 1968
Extreme Instances
By Christopher Ricks
The Public Image
by Muriel Spark
Knopf, 144 pp., $4.50
Collected Stories: 1
by Muriel Spark
Knopf, 359 pp., $6.95
Other books by Muriel Spark
Collected Poems: 1
by Muriel Spark
Knopf, 97 pp., $4.00
The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
Knopf, 176 pp., $3.95
The Mandelbaum Gate
by Muriel Spark
Knopf, 369 pp., $5.95
A Muriel Spark Trio: The Comforters, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Memento Mori
by Muriel Spark
Lippincott, 608 pp., $5.95
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
Lippincott, 187 pp., $3.95
The Bachelors
by Muriel Spark
Lippincott, 219 pp., $3.95
The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories
by Muriel Spark
Lippincott, 215 pp., $3.75
Voices at Play
by Muriel Spark
Lippincott, 248 pp., $4.00
From Muriel Spark's Collected Poems: 1. An archangel might murmur 'What a collection!' But then one of the perquisites of being a best-selling novelist is that even publishers who know what's good may have to know what's good for them. Mrs. Spark's poems are pastiche. Sometimes skilled. But skill glitters from all her fiction—from her new novel. The Public Image, as from her Collected Stories: 1. Does it do more than glitter?
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