Item category 1: Classic

Originally published in 1934 as Povest, The Last Summer explores the half-remembered and half-imagined memories of Serezha. Visiting his sister during 1916, he remembers what life in Moscow was like before World War One.

Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the glamorous, free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, schoolteacher at the Marcia Blaine Academy, whose guiding principle is ‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she’ll be mine for life. I am dedicated to you in my p...