This dark comedy of errors portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781409044000
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...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099433569
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407018249
The nine characters in this novel are all looking for love; and so closely is the web woven that the actions and passions of each are constantly affecting the others....more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099470489
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099283997
This title provides a story about being in love. "The Black Prince" is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involved plot...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099433545
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 asks. 'The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285373
Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the centre of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions. Including creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780140264920
Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces. Included are her major critiques of existentialism written in the 1950s...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
In this 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...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099283690
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter the school of life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free from their own particular obsessions....more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285250
A novel centred upon guilt-ridden despair, and the difficult problem of trying to be good, and the various magical devices that console those who are sensible enough not to try....more details Format:Book
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099429081
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. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019932
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. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285236
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099283799
Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, published in her 71st year, tells of Alfred Ludens' long search for Professor Marcus Vallar, convinced he possesses a secret fundamental to the human condition. But is Vallar a genius...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099433552
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285267
A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285359
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019222
Who will judge whom in this rich and riveting story? Who will act nobly, and who will act basely? Who will be lucky?...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099283591
In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence...more details Format:Book
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781856867900
The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother...When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director...more details Format:Audio
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099429135
The scene is Ireland. The time, 1916, is the eve of the famous, tragic Easter Rebellion in Dublin, which startled Europe even in the midst of the First World War. A single Anglo Irish family provides the extremely diverse characters. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his step father...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099433576
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 fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be his only consolations after all. The neighbour...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099433583
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019697
Sartre's powerful political passions were united to a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285366
Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780701169183
Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas in a bar...more details Format:Hardback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781409022961
Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019314
The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different rouble and a terrible secret...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780141186689
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:528
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019758
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019161
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. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781407019727
For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099284093
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099560999
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:560
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9781409024538
Marian Taylor, who has come as a 'companion' to a lonely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her own obsessions ...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099429098
Carel is rector of a non-existent City church (it was destroyed in the war). In the rectory live his daughter, Muriel, his beautiful invalid ward...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099429074
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285342
When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a spell...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099285380
This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch
ISBN:9780099429128
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Iris Murdoch;Karen Armstrong
ISBN:9780142180099
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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Iris Murdoch;Michael McCurdy
ISBN:9780393335217
Beautifully Produced and hauntingly illustrated, this unknown work by Iris Murdoh (1918-1999) is something very special indeed. Previously unpublished but for an excerpt in a 1950s anthology...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Iris Murdoch;Bradley Loxias P APearson
ISBN:9780142180112
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:408
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Murdoch Iris
ISBN:9780099273721
Iris Murdoch assesses the different strands of Jean-Paul Sartre's rich and complex work. Sartre's political passions combined with his memorable literary gift place him foremost among the novelists as well as the philosophers of our time. Iris Murdoch discusses the tradition of philosophical...more details