The Bachelors

Muriel Spark

Original title: Jung gesellen =

earliest edition we have, 1960 New Directions, 2014 paperback 144 pages

[Penguin Books. no. 1910.]

A barrister, a priest, a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium -- the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark's supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe. First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum's, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented -- defraud...

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Editions we hold

Bachelors edition · 2016 · Canongate Books · 240 pages · 9781782117551
Bachelors edition · 2015 · Canongate Books · 9781782117568
Bachelors edition · 2014 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 9780811221344
The Bachelors paperback · 2014 · New Directions · 144 pages · 9780811222983
Bachelors edition · 2003 · Textbook Publishers · 9780758197832
The Bachelors audiobook · 2001 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786196739
The bachelors edition · 1999 · New Directions · 186 pages
Junggesellen. Roman. paperback · 1999 · Diogenes Verlag
The Bachelors edition · 1992 · Avon Books (P) · 9780380715701
The Bachelors edition · 1972 · Macmillan London Limited · 9780333095140
The bachelors. edition · 1972 · Macmillan, St. Martins Press · 241 pages
The bachelors edition · 1963 · Penguin · 214 pages · 9780140019100

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