The Sacred And Profane Love Machine

Author: Iris Murdoch

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Price : $28.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780099433576
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : vinteb
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Weight (g) : 0.37
Publication date : 01 February 2003
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Iris Murdoch
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Edition : 304
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Dewey classification : 823.914
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Pages : 352
BIC subject : FA
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This is a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Sacred and profane love are related opposites; the one enjoyed renders the other necessary, so that the ever unsatisfied heart swings constantly to and fro.

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'Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour' The Times 20021018

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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999.

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