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  • A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    A Fairly Honourable Defeat

    An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a...
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  • A Severed Head by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    A Severed Head

    A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves...
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  • A Severed Head by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    A Severed Head

    JB Priestley's adaptation of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head.4 women, 3 menAuthor: Iris MurdochISBN-10: 0573015279ISBN-13: 9780573015274Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2015Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.16d
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  • An Accidental Man by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    An Accidental Man

    A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to...
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  • Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

    Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a...
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  • Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995

    For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has...
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  • Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995

    For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has...
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  • Nuns and Soldiers by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Nuns and Soldiers

    A dazzling meditation on love and honor, greed and generosity, passion and death, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from...
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  • Something Special: A Story by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Something Special: A Story

    An unforgettable tale of love and repression, appearing in book form for the first time. Beautifully produced and hauntingly illustrated, this unknown work by Iris Murdoch (1918-1999) is something very special indeed. Previously unpublished but for an excerpt in a 1950s anthology, this is...
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  • The Bell by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Bell

    A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new...
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  • The Black Prince by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Black Prince

    Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by...
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  • The Black Prince by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Black Prince

    Former tax inspector Bradley Pearson is a writer who has published nothing - his precept is perfect; his maxim is to wait - unlike his best friend Arnold Baffin who is a prolific, highly-successful writer of second-rate novels. Now Bradley is to retire to...
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  • The Book and the Brotherhood by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Book and the Brotherhood

    A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland...
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  • The Good Apprentice by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Good Apprentice

    Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption...
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  • The Green Knight by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Green Knight

    Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a stranger--whom...
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  • The Nice and the Good by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Nice and the Good

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good. John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he...
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  • The Sandcastle by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Sandcastle

    A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to...
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  • The Sea, the Sea by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner

    Winner of the Booker Prize--a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir...
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  • The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell

    These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity. A Severed Head (1961) is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works, tracing the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a...
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  • The Sovereignty of Good by Midgley, Mary
    Iris Murdoch

    The Sovereignty of Good

    Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good...
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  • The Sovereignty of Good by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Sovereignty of Good

    Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific...
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  • The Unicorn by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Unicorn

    A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but...
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  • Under the Net by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    Under the Net

    Iris Murdoch's debut--a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes...
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