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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
A comedy of errors, this title 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.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love Martin Lynch-Gibson 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 reeducation. He attempts to ...Show more
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgivene ...Show more
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one aft ...Show more
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.
Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.
Iris Murdoch : A Writer at War - Letters and diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 by Iris Murdoch (editor Peter Conradi)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The never before published diaries and letters of Iris Murdoch, during WWII. Includes correspondence with the poet Frank Thomson and the diplomat David Hicks. They shed a new light on the life and mind of a brilliant young writer. Edited by Peter Conradi, Murdoch's friend and the author of her biography ...Show more
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 by Iris Murdoch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real'. This selection of Iris Murdoch's most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words ...Show more
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: near fine
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. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's rich and complex oeurve. Combining the objectivity ...Show more
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
$12.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
This title is with an introduction by A. S. Byatt. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Cou ...Show more