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Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an English author and philosopher, best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American...
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A Severed Head
A Severed Head is a satirical, sometimes farcical 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch.
Primary themes include marriage, adultery, and incest within a group of civilized and educated people. Set in and around London, it depicts a power struggle between grown...
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The Sea, the Sea
The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978.
The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a...
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- 1978
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Under the Net
Under the Net was the first novel of Iris Murdoch, published in 1954. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue. Its mixture of the philosophical and the picaresque has made it one of Murdoch's most popular.
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The Red and the Green
The Red and the Green is a 1965 novel by Iris Murdoch that covers the events leading up to and during the Easter Rebellion in Ireland during World War I. It is written in a different style than Murdoch's other fiction, but like the other novels...
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- 1965
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Nuns and Soldiers
Nuns and Soldiers is a 1980 novel by Iris Murdoch. The setting is England and two of the main characters are Gertrude, a widow, and Anne, an ex-nun.
Guy Openshaw is 44 years old and on his death bed. Cancer is coming down hard on Guy, and he cannot...
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- 1980
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The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a...
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The Good Apprentice
The Good Apprentice is the 22nd novel by Iris Murdoch, first published in 1985.
Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke. After Mark, still high, falls to...
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The Flight from the Enchanter
The Flight from the Enchanter is a novel written by Iris Murdoch and published in 1956.
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- 1956
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The Italian Girl
The Italian Girl is a novel by Iris Murdoch, first published in 1964.
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the same awful problems, together with some new ones. He...
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- 1964
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The Sandcastle
The Sandcastle is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1957. It is the story of a middle-aged schoolmaster (Mor) with political ambitions who meets a young painter (Rain), come to paint the Headmaster's (Demoyte) portrait.
He leaned forward and...
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- Dec 1957
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A Word Child
A Word Child is the 17th novel by Iris Murdoch.
First published in 1975 by Chatto and Windus, A Word Child charts the trials and tribulations of the title character, the "word child", Hilary Burde as he attempts to recover his soul from the misery...
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The Black Prince
The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch's 15th novel, first published in 1973. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet.
The Black Prince is remarkable for the structure of its narrative, consisting of a central story bookended by forewords and post...
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- 1973
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
A Fairly Honourable Defeat is a novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch.
The lives of several friends are thrown into disarray by the machinations of Julius King. Julius makes a bet with his ex-girlfriend Morgan that he can break up...
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- 1970
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The Green Knight
The Green Knight is the 25th novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, first published in 1993.
The lives of Louise Anderson and her daughters Aleph, Sefton and Moy become intertwined with a mystical character whose destiny both...
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Something Special
"Something Special" is the only published short story by Iris Murdoch. It first appeared in 1957 in a collection entitled Winter's Tales 3, and after inclusion in anthologies in Japan (1971, 1972), England (1979) and Finland (1990) it was...
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The Bell
The Bell is a novel written by Iris Murdoch in 1958. It was her fourth to be published, and is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire.
Dora Greenfield leaves her...
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Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature is a book by Iris Murdoch.
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- 1998
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The Philosopher's Pupil
The Philosopher's Pupil is a 1983 novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. It is set in a small English spa town called Ennistone.
George, aged 'more than forty' at the time of the novel, was a pupil of John Robert Rozanov, the...
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Bruno's Dream
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The Nice and the Good
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Bruno's Dream
Bruno's Dream is a 1969 novel by Iris Murdoch. Set in London it tells the story of a dying man called Bruno and his family. Narrated in the third person that allows for multiple character perspectives it follows Bruno, Bruno's son Miles, Miles' wife...
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Joanna Joanna
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fire & the sun
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La Gouvernante italienne
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Meer, das Meer
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Reynolds Stone
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accidental man
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Sous Le Filet
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Das Meer, das Meer
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Les Cloches
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L'élève du philosophe
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Acastos
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Henry und Cato
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one alone
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Diti͡a︡ slova
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La Campana/The bell
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The Unicorn
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Der schwarze Prinz
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Le Prince noir
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time of the angels
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Philosophy Essays
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An Accidental Man
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An Unofficial Rose
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3 Arrows & Servnt & Snow
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Le château de sable
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Une'Tete Coupee
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Le chevalier vert
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Das italienische Mädchen
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sovereignty of good
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El Fuego y El Sol
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