Iris Murdoch (1919–99) was a British writer and philosopher. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker Prize–winning
The Sea, the Sea.
Avril Horner and
Anne Rowe are the coeditors of
Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts and
Iris Murdoch and Morality.
87 E-böcker av Iris Murdoch
Christopher Maslanka: Pyrgic Puzzler
Eighty mind-bending problems combine the eccentricity of Lewis Carroll with the genius of Einstein. Loaded with chuckles and challenges, the puzzles promise to test the powers of logic and ingenuity …
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Iris Murdoch: Living on Paper
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 uncon …
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Iris Murdoch: 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 …
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Iris Murdoch: 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 …
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Iris Murdoch: Italian Girl
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, …
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Iris Murdoch: Bruno’s Dream
A dying man makes a request of his estranged son that brings secrets and grudges to the surface in a novel by the prize-winning author of Under the Net. With not much time left to live, Bruno …
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Iris Murdoch: Time of the Angels
From “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” and a Man Booker Prize winner, a priest descends into madness in a London rectory after WWII (The Guardian). Carel Fi …
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Iris Murdoch: Philosopher’s Pupil
A New York Times Notable Book: An ’;ingeniously plotted’ tale of tragedy, comedy, and small-town gossip (The New York Times Book Review). The quiet English town of Ennistone is known for its peaceful …
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Iris Murdoch: Henry and Cato
Reunited childhood friends confront their longings and failures in this “engaging” novel by a Man Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times). As children growing up in …
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Iris Murdoch: Flight from the Enchanter
A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is …
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Iris Murdoch: Acastos
’;Witty and profound’ musings on questions of art and religion from a celebrated novelist known for her philosophical explorations (Library Journal). For centuries, the works of Plato, featuring his …
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Iris Murdoch: Unofficial Rose
“A Shakespearean comedy of misaligned lovers” set in the modern English countryside by a Man Booker Prize winner (Publishers Weekly). Hugh Peronett’s life is tinged with regr …
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Iris Murdoch: Word Child
Guilt, secrets, and lies haunt two men whose lives are bound by a long-ago tragedy in this “riveting” novel by the author of The Sea, The Sea (Los Angeles Times). Twenty years ago, …
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Iris Murdoch: Red and the Green
A novel about a troubled Irish family on the eve of the Easter Rising by a Man Booker Prize–winning author. In 1916, with the First World War raging across Europe, Andrew Chase-White, li …
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Iris Murdoch: Word Child
Guilt, secrets, and lies haunt two men whose lives are bound by a long-ago tragedy in this ’;riveting’ novel by the author of The Sea, The Sea (Los Angeles Times). Twenty years ago, Hilary Burde’s st …
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Iris Murdoch: Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume One
Three sharply observed novels from the “prodigiously inventive” Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea (The New York Times). “One of the most significant n …
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Iris Murdoch: Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, the Sea and “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian). A “consummate storyteller, &r …
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Iris Murdoch: Oameni buni și oameni de bine
Sinuciderea misterioasă a unui înalt funcționar guvernamental pasionat de magia neagră declanșează o anchetă. Pe măsură ce-și desfășoară investigația, protagonistul cărții, John Ducane, descoperă via …
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Iris Murdoch: Accidental Man
This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others. The others, in …
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Iris Murdoch: Unofficial Rose
After his wife’s death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall’s young daughter, Miranda, is ador …
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Iris Murdoch: Under The Net (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
This is real life, Jake, ’ she said. ’You’d better wake up.’ Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator. Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hug …
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Iris Murdoch: Philosopher’s Pupil
In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this t …
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Iris Murdoch: Flight From the Enchanter
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an …
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Iris Murdoch: Italian Girl
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother’s funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives r …
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Iris Murdoch: Nice and the Good
A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The novel dea …
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Iris Murdoch: Nuns and Soldiers
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle. The ’Count’, a Polish man in exile watches o …
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Iris Murdoch: Time Of The Angels
Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West …
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Iris Murdoch: Red and the Green
As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother …
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Iris Murdoch: Book And The Brotherhood
It’s the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women – friends since university days – have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. …
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Iris Murdoch: Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
It’s all dry sand running through the fingers.’ When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must a …
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Iris Murdoch: Sartre
Sartre’s powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. Iris Murdoch’s pioneering study an …
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Iris Murdoch: Message To The Planet
For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Lude …
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Iris Murdoch: Good Apprentice
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. Interfering friends and …
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Iris Murdoch: Severed Head
Martin 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 re-ed …
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Iris Murdoch: Bruno’s Dream
Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider’s web of relationships and passions: Bruno’s estranged and grieving son Mi …
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Iris Murdoch: Henry And Cato
Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. Hi …
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Iris Murdoch: Sacred And Profane Love Machine
Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his ficti …
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Iris Murdoch: Jackson’s Dilemma
Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and frie …
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Iris Murdoch: Fairly Honourable Defeat (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
I feel there are demons around.’ Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda’s tormented sister, he is an obsession. For …
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Iris Murdoch: Unicorn
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALFWhen Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange my …
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Iris Murdoch: Sea, The Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
”I saw a monster rising from the waves.’**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK****Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1978**Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermi …
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Iris Murdoch: Word Child
Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the m …
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Iris Murdoch: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we def …
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Iris Murdoch: Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
’In this holy community she would play the witch.’ Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routi …
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Iris Murdoch: Something Special
Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication.Set in …
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Iris Murdoch: Living on Paper
EDITED BY AVRIL HORNER AND ANNE ROWE Destroy this and all letters. And keep your mouth shut This collection of Iris Murdoch s most interesting and revealing letters gives us a living portrait of one …
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Iris Murdoch: Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two
Three unforgettable novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, the Sea and “consummate storyteller” (The Independent). “One of the most significant nov …
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Iris Murdoch: Clopotul
Nu încape îndoială că Iris Murdoch este una dintre cele mai strălucite romanciere contemporane. Forța imaginației sale, inteligența și subtilitatea cu care dezvăluie adevăruri umane profunde o plasea …
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Iris Murdoch: MAREA, MAREA
Marea, marea, capodopera scriitoarei engleze Iris Murdoch, este povestea lui Charles Arrowby, un regizor celebru care, în căutarea liniștii și a ingenuității de altădată, părăsește lumea teatrului și …
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Iris Murdoch: Prințul Negru
Bradley Pearson, autorul a trei romane aclamate de critică, dar fără succes comercial, și-a părăsit în sfârșit slujba plictisitoare de inspector fiscal. Bradley speră să se retragă la țară și să trăi …
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Iris Murdoch: Nostalgia por lo particular
Las primeras etapas del pensamiento filosófico de Iris Murdoch, una escritora excepcional en el panorama intelectual del siglo XX. Existe en nuestra época un vacío grave y creciente sobre cuestiones …
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Iris Murdoch: La salvación por las palabras
«Murdoch posee el don de la dramatización, la capacidad de hacer figurativo el acto del pensamiento». George Steiner Este volumen recoge los principales ensayos que Iris Murdoch dedicó a las dos disc …
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Iris Murdoch: El fuego y el sol
En este libro, basado en las conferencias que dictó en Roma en 1976, Iris Murdoch examina la visión de Platón sobre el arte y, en particular, las razones de la manifiesta hostilidad del filósofo haci …
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Iris Murdoch: Descubrir el existencialismo
«Pocas veces se habla de la responsabilidad que se vieron obligados a asumir muchos escritores después de 1945, cuando todos los caminos parecían ya trillados y agotados. Iris Murdoch fue una de las …
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Iris Murdoch: Henry y Cato
Cuando Henry Marshalson y Cato Forbes se encuentran en Inglaterra después de varios años sin verse, su existencia no se halla en un momento precisamente fácil. Tras la muerte de su hermano mayor, Hen …
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Iris Murdoch: El unicornio
Cuando Marian Taylor acepta un empleo de institutriz en el castillo de Gaze y llega a ese remoto lugar situado en medio de un paisaje terriblemente hermoso y desolado, no imagina que allí encontrará …
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Iris Murdoch: El libro y la hermandad
Como en la comedia de Shakespeare, con la excusa de una fiesta de antiguos alumnos de Oxford, un grupo de amigos se reúne bajo el cielo estrellado de una noche de verano. Allí se encuentran el carism …
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Iris Murdoch: Bajo la red
Considerada una de las cumbres de la narrativa inglesa del XX, ’Bajo la red’ supuso el debut novelístico de Iris Murdoch. Jake Donaghue, su protagonista, es un escritor y traductor que deambula por u …
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Iris Murdoch: Monjas y soldados
Amor y amistad. Lealtad y conflictos morales. Tan magistral como siempre, Murdoch ahonda de forma brillante en las aspiraciones y los miedos que experimenta todo ser humano cuando ha de posicionarse …
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Iris Murdoch: La máquina del amor sagrado y profano
WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD. Iris Murdoch en la cumbre de su talento creativo. Un complicado juego de pasiones sobre las paradojas de la vida humana y la naturaleza del amor. Montague «Monty» Small, popula …
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Iris Murdoch: 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 e …
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Iris Murdoch: 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 e …
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Iris Murdoch: Die Souveränität des Guten
In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulänglichkeiten der analytischen Moralphilosophie und fordert …
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Iris Murdoch: Italian Girl
A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, …
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Enrique Maldonado & Iris Murdoch: Una cabeza cercenada
Un clásico moderno imprescindible sobre el matrimonio, el adulterio y el incesto. Para Elizabeth Jane Howard, una de las comedias más feroces y emocionantes de Murdoch. En la neblinosa Londres, la fi …
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Iris Murdoch: Bruno’s Dream
A dying man makes a request of his estranged son that brings secrets and grudges to the surface in a novel by the prize-winning author of Under the Net. With not much time left to live, Bruno …
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Iris Murdoch: Word Child
Guilt, secrets, and lies haunt two men whose lives are bound by a long-ago tragedy in this “riveting” novel by the author of The Sea, The Sea (Los Angeles Times). Twenty years ago, …
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Iris Murdoch: Algo del otro mundo
Escrita con el brío y el humor socarrón tan reconocibles en la autora irlandesa, Algo del otro mundo es un latigazo literario que nos sorprende con una conclusión conmovedora y extrañamente turbadora …
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Iris Murdoch: Black Prince (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CANDIA MCWILLIAMThe Black Prince is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love.Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a ’block’. Finding …
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