The Golden Fleece

by Muriel Spark

  de La Tour, Georges 1, 2

  Dickinson, Emily 1

  Dryden, John 1

  Eliot, George (Mary Anne Evans) 1

  Eliot, T.S. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Elliott, Denholm 1, 2

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1

  Faure, Felix 1

  Fawkes, Guy 1

  Finlay, Ian Hamilton 1

  FitzGerald, Edward 1

  Forster, E.M. 1

  Francesca, Piero della 1, 2

  Fry, Christopher 1

  Frost, Robert 1, 2

  Froude, James Anthony 1

  Gaskell, Elizabeth 1

  Gide, André 1, 2

  Godwin, William 1, 2, 3, 4

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1

  Greene, Graham 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hamilton, Emma 1

  Heim, Karl 1

  Hitler, Adolf 1

  Homer 1

  Housman, Laurence 1

  Hunt, Leigh 1, 2

  Irving, Washington 1

  James, Henry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  John XXIII (Pope) 1

  Josipovici, Gabriel 1

  Jung, C.G. 1

  Kermode, Frank 1, 2, 3

  Kierkegaard, Søren 1, 2, 3, 4

  Kingsley, Charles 1

  Kipling, Rudyard 1

  Kundera, Milan 1

  Lear, Edward 1

  Leighton, Margaret 1

  Loti, Pierre 1

  Macdonald, Dwight 1

  Machiavelli, Niccolò 1

  Mackenzie, Compton 1

  MacNeice, Louis 1, 2, 3, 4

  Manzù, Giacomo 1

  Márquez, Gabriel García 1

  Marvell, Andrew 1

  Masefeld, Constance 1

  Masefield, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Mee, Arthur 1

  Meir, Golda 1

  Merimée, Prosper 1

  Milne, A.A. 1

  Milton, John 1, 2

  Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind 1

  Moffat, Sandy 1

  Moore, Marianne 1

  Moro, Aldo 1

  Morris, William 1

  Murdoch, Iris 1, 2

  Mussolini, Benito 1

  Nabokov, Vladimir 1

  Newman, Cardinal John Henry 1, 2, 3

  O’Faolain, Sean 1

  Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé) 1

  Özal, Turgut 1

  Paul VI (Pope) 1

  Patroni-Griffi, Giuseppe 1

  Peniakoff, Vladimir 1

  Picasso, Pablo 1

  Pirandello, Luigi 1

  Plato 1, 2

  Poe, Edgar Allan 1

  Pope, Alexander 1

  Powys, T.F. 1

  Praz, Mario 1

  Proust, Marcel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Remembrance of Things Past 1

  Radcliffe, Ann 1

  Raine, Kathleen 1

  Ransom, John Crowe 1, 2

  Read, Herbert 1, 2

  Rilke, Rainer Maria 1, 2

  Rogers, Paul 1

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1, 2

  Ruskin, John 1

  Schiller, Friedrich 1

  Sciascia, Leonardo 1, 2

  Scott, Paul 1

  Scott, Sir Walter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4

  Shelley, Mary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Frankenstein 1, 2

  The Last Man 1, 2

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Simenon, Georges 1

  Sitwell, Edith 1, 2

  Smart, Christopher 1

  Smith, Stevie 1

  Spender, Stephen 1

  Stevenson, Robert Louis 1, 2, 3

  Strachey, Lytton 1

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles 1, 2, 3

  Symons, Arthur 1

  Tate, Allen 1, 2

  Taylor, Elizabeth 1

  Thackeray, William Makepeace 1

  Thomas, Dylan 1, 2

  Trilling, Lionel 1

  Tynan, Katharine 1

  Updike, John 1

  Van Eyck, Jan 1

  Velázquez, Diego 1

  Vidal, Gore 1

  Visconti, Luchino 1, 2

  Waugh, Evelyn 1, 2, 3

  Weil, Simone 1

  Wellesley, Arthur (1st Duke of Wellington) 1

  Wells, H.G. 1

  Wharton, Edith 1

  Whitman, Walt 1

  Williams, Edward 1

  Williams, Jane 1

  Wollstonecraft, Mary 1, 2

  Woolf, Virginia 1

  Wordsworth, William 1, 2

  Yeats, W.B. 1

  Young, Andrew 1

  About the Author

  Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918 and was raised and educated there. After some married years living in Africa, she returned to England, where she edited Poetry Review from 1947 to 1949 and published her first volume of poems, The Fanfarlo: and Other Verse, in 1952. In the early 1960s she worked in New York, eventually making her home in Italy. Her many novels include Memento Mori (1959), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Girls of Slender Means (1963), The Abbess of Crewe (1974), A Far Cry from Kensington (1988) and The Finishing School (2004). Her short stories were collected in 1967, 1985 and 2001, and her Collected Poems I appeared in 1967. Dame Muriel was made Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 1996 and awarded her DBE in 1993. She died in Italy on 13th April 2006, at the age of 88.

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