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Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2001-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0141186178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780141186177 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Fairly Honourable Defeat by : Iris Murdoch
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 Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 391 |
Release |
: 2003-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101495681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101495685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Prince by : Iris Murdoch
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 his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 1978-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101495810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101495812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sandcastle by : Iris Murdoch
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 enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor’s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a “great love” be purchased at too high a price?
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2001-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0141186178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780141186177 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Fairly Honourable Defeat by : Iris Murdoch
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 Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 532 |
Release |
: 2001-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0141186682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780141186689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Good Apprentice by : Iris Murdoch
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 through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 2002-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0142180092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780142180099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nuns and Soldiers by : Iris Murdoch
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 the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ. A fascinating array of men and women hover in urgent orbit around them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his émigré father's patriotic anguish; Tim Reede, a seedy yet appealing artist, and Daisy, his mistress; the manipulative Mrs. Mount; and many other magically drawn characters moving between desire and obligation, guilt and joy. This edition of Nuns and Soldiers includes a new introduction by renowned religious historian Karen Armstrong.
Author |
: John Eldridge Drewry |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015003551663 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Book Reviews by : John Eldridge Drewry
Complete revision of the author's "Book reviewing", originally published in 1945.
Author |
: I. Murdoch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2009-12-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1407065009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781407065007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fairly Honourable Defeat by : I. Murdoch
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2010-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781453201121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1453201122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Word Child by : Iris Murdoch
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 story was one of remarkable success and enviable courage. Having brought himself out of a troubled childhood with only his intellect and wit, he was one of the most promising scholars at Oxford, a student with a rare talent for linguistics and an unquenchable drive. Until the accident. Now, forty-one and a decidedly ordinary failure, Hilary finds his quietly angry routine shattered when his old professor reappears in his life—a man whose own demons are tied to Hilary’s and the tragedy from years ago. As the two men begin to circle each other once again, digging up old wrongs and seeking forgiveness for long-buried ills, they find themselves on a path that will either grant them both redemption or destroy them both forever. Haunting and emotional, A Word Child is an intimate look at the madness of regret by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of Under the Net and A Severed Head.
Author |
: Gillian Dooley |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1570034990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781570034992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction by : Gillian Dooley
Dooley provides background information for each of the interviews, along with a thorough index.