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B. Nicol
This book traces the preoccupation in Murdoch’s fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, haunting us and eluding our attempts to grasp it.
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Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch’s work by placing…
This volume considers one of the major British novelists of the postwar years in a new light, arguing that her compulsive plots and characters are often motivated by the insistent…
This study argues that Murdoch’s plots and characters are motivated by the question of the past. Providing an analysis of her first person retrospective novels, the author also considers Murdoch’s…
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch’s compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated…
Iris Murdoch
In this riveting tale of love and intellectual intrigue, Murdoch gives readers a seductive story with ever-mounting action, including suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law.
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…
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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…
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…
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The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame –Cover.
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…
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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, caring…
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…
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…
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch’s questions - and her own conclusions - can be…
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Austin Gibson Grey, an American living in London, blames fate when he is drafted during the Vietnam War.
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…
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. The ‘Count’, a Polish man in exile watches over Gertrude…
This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. In this role we meet Dorina, Austin’s estranged wife, Mitzi, his alcoholic…
Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. Edward and Marian, the couple at the centre of the story, are led by events to…
In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George…
After his wife’s death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. Randall’s young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Impelled by affection, lust…
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…
This novel describes how a group of liberal-minded intellectuals get together in their youth to subsidize their friend, David Crimond, to write the definitive book about their political beliefs. Now…
Concerned with the humanistic part of the history of philosophy, Plato to structuralism, and how it bears on our thoughts and feelings about our moral lives, this book attempts to…
Stuart’s step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. Funny, compelling and extremely moving, THE GOOD APPRENTICE is about guilt ridden despair…
Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion.
Gathered together in this volume are some of Iris Murdoch’s most influential writings. They include major critiques of existentialism, essays such as The Sublime and the Good , Platonic dialogues…
As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious…
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. Patrick…
A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers…
These seven characters maintain a constant dance of attraction and repulsion, misunderstanding and revelation, the centre of which is the enigmatic Carel himself - a priest who believes that, God…
Marian Taylor accepts a position as companion to Mrs. Hannah Crean-Smith, and gradually comes to the opinion that she is a prisoner of her husband.
A writer of detective fiction who has not recovered from the loss of his wife becomes involved in the life of a neighbor’s family.
Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her…
From the nationally acclaimed author of The Book of the Brotherhood comes a magnificently crafted and magical novel which explores biblical and medieval themes in a contemporary London setting. Enthralling…
Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist aims to gather some of the world’s present experts on Iris Murdoch, in an effort to promote dialogue between philosophy and literature.
Andreas Patenidis
This work is concerned with Iris Murdoch’s four novels: The Sea the Sea, A Word Child, The Bell and Under the Net. The most extensive chapter of this work deals…
Diana Phillips
In part one Iris Murdoch’s work is set against its contemporary background. Her concept of Man, as seen both in her fiction and in her philosophical work, is discussed with…
