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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
A comedy of errors, this title portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to ...Show more
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgivene ...Show more
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one aft ...Show more
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.
Brunos Dream by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Features Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation. He lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fi ...Show more
Good Apprentice,the by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometim ...Show more
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
Category: Biography
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
Category: Biography
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels, yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defence any moral values against the constant enroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? This work conducts a debate with major writers, thin ...Show more