Isbn: 9780395511015 - symposium (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Symposium was applauded by Time magazine for the sinister elegance of Muriel Spark's medium of light but lethal comedy. Mixed in are a Monet, a mad uncle, some unconventional nuns, and a burglary ring run by a rent-a-butler. Symposium stars a perfectly evil young woman (a classic sweet-faced hair-raising Sparkian horror) who has married rich Hilda's son by hook or by crook, hooking him at the fruit counter of Harrod's. There is also spiritual conversationand the Bordeaux is superb. The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath, by boiling emotions and ugly motives .No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and subversiveness of thought more elegantly. (The Independent on Sunday).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Good. American ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Good. American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Symposium This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. The nineteenth novel by this award-winning and prolific author, probably still best known for 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'. "Ten stylish Londoners assemble for a dinner party: as Charterhouse, the butler, offers each course, Spark serves up a mercilessly economical history of the two hosts, their various guests and the distinguished Hilda Damien, who is expected 'to look in' after dinner. . . Polished and witty, the narrative cuts from the banquet to episodes in the recent past that link Hilda's death to her associations with the other characters. Spark's exquisitely balanced tone proves that the richest comedy is that which explores the darkest themes." (Publishers Weekly) 192 pp. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket.…

Zustand: Good. Light scuffs & scratches to the jacket, tanned. Faint marks to the edges of the textblock. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($18.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 145 pages. A darkly comic novel centering on a London dinner party that slowly reveals a web of past crimes and hidden motives. This was Spark's twentieth novel.…

Hardcover. dj. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 192 pages In Very Good plus condition with a Very Good plus dust jacket. Volume is in black cloth quarter binding with black paper boards and pink titling to spine. Jacket is cream-colored with multicolored titling to cover and spine, wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve. Light sunning to spine. Price uncut: "$18.95". Boards show negligible wear, with very mild rubbing along edges. Small, faint smudge on top edge of text block. Text block otherwise clean. Shelved in Room F. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936-2021) and Susan Sheehan (1937-2026) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1411793. Special Collections - Upstairs. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Like New. Cloaked in sophistication, the well-bred guests at a London dinner party are seething with subtle violence while awaiting the arrival of a guest who is being murdered as they eat.