- Memento Mori (novel)
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Memento Mori 
First edition coverAuthor(s) Muriel Spark Cover artist Victor Reinganum Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Macmillan Publication date January 1959[1] Media type Print, Audio & eBook OCLC Number 1619422 Memento Mori is a novel written by Scottish author Muriel Spark and published by Macmillan in 1959. The title translates to "Remember you must die" and is the message delivered by a series of insidious phone-calls made to the elderly Dame Lettie Colston and her acquaintances. Who is making the calls and why? The recipients reflect on their past lives whilst trying to identify the culprit...
Television adaptation
It was adapted for television in 1992 by the BBC starring Maggie Smith, Thora Hird, Michael Hordern and Zoë Wanamaker, and shown in the US by Masterpiece Theatre.[2]
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Novels by Muriel Spark The Comforters (1957) • Robinson (1958) • Memento Mori (1959) • The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) • The Girls of Slender Means (1963) • The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) • The Public Image (1968) • The Driver's Seat (1970) • Not to Disturb (1971) • The Hothouse by the East River (1973) • The Abbess of Crewe (1974) • The Takeover (1976) • Territorial Rights (1979) • Loitering with Intent (1981) • The Only Problem (1984) • A Far Cry From Kensington (1988) • Symposium (1990) • Reality and Dreams (1996) • Aiding and Abetting (2000) • The Finishing School (2004)
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- 1959 novels
- Novels by Muriel Spark
- Books available as e-books
- Novels set in London
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