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        The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie


        setting

        Scotland

        time

        Post-WWII

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1962

        page count

        156

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Miss Jean Brodie and her girls

        Rip's impressions

        Cheeky, accessible, and politically disturbing.

        first line

        The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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