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The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Classics
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 found in the Sovereignty of Good.
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
Category: Politics | Series: Routledge Great Minds
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 focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the not ...Show more
The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a religious man transferring his faith from one force to the other.
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
Category: Children's
A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seem ...Show more
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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, whose magic also touches the neighbouring house of Riders, inhabited by a recluse.
Under The Net: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; Kiernan Ryan (Introduction by)
Category: 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. 'This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd ...Show more
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Category: Classic Fiction
"A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame"--Cover.
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Category: Fiction
Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work a ...Show more