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Iris Murdoch
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1977, c1976
Description
When old friends Henry and Cato reunite after years apart, they quickly become embroiled in the drama of each other's lives. Henry, who has just returned to England as the sole heir to his recently deceased brother's estate, quickly begins to uncover secrets buried long ago. Meanwhile, Cato, a Catholic priest, has fallen in love with the criminal Beautiful Joe, and struggles to reform him despite the thief's continual efforts to rob him. A stirring...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983
Description
A mysterious accident drives the inhabitants of a quiet town to face their darkest obsessions When George McCaffrey's car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame. Nobody, that is, except an Anglican priest who happened to witness the whole thing. And when George's former teacher, the charismatic philosopher Rozanov, returns to town, George's life begins to spin wildly out of control. Set in the English...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Description
On the eve of the Easter Rising, a divided Irish family is pushed to the brink of destruction. In the dark days of the First World War, tensions between Catholic Pat Dumay and his Protestant cousin Andrew Chase-White threaten to tear their family apart along political and religious lines. As Ireland moves ever closer to the deadly Easter rebellion, the family is engulfed in an epic drama of love, loyalty, and loss that will change their lives forever....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Edward Lannion is to marry the lovely Marian Fox. But on the eve of the wedding, Marian's note leaves everyone in a tizzy and full of questions: Where is Marian? And who is Jackson? In this intricately plotted novel, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancé, sending them both off on strange, dark, and amusing paths.
Author
Publisher
Ark Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1985, c1970
Description
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything, even God. 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 here.
Iris Murdoch was one of the great...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1977,c1954]
Description
"Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, a hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with formidable Hugo, whose 'philosopy' he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping...
