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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Charles, a retired theatre director, retires to a small village where he encounters Hartley, the woman he loved years ago when they were both children, and who is now happily married to a man Charles despises.

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A Severed Head

A Severed Head more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

In a typical Murdochean situation, a large cast of characters pairs off, regroups, and pairs off again in this 1961 novel, in which moral blindness is finally vanquished by goodness, acceptance, and maturity.

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Under the Net

Under the Net more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's seventh novel is a comedy of manners in which an oddly assorted group of friends in London engage in a desperate scramble to separate truth from falsehood from fantasy.

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The bell

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by Iris Murdoch

The bishop comes to town to christen the church's new bell, and the event sparks a series of events that end in one near-suicide, one actual suicide, and a radical reshuffling of the fortunes of the townspeople.

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Black Prince

Black Prince more books like this

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In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not only a gripping story of human relationships, but a profound consideration of love, death, and art.

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Green Knight

Green Knight more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

The pivotal characters in this novel are two brothers, Lucas and Clement. Lucas attempts to kill Clement, but is thwarted by the intervention of a passerby, whom Lucas assaults, pretending he has been mugged. The man refuses to leave Lucas alone, and after the incident, demands that Lucas compensate him for the attack. As in so many of Murdoch's ...

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The red and the green

The red and the green more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

In this story of an Irish family during the tense days leading up to the doomed Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, Iris Murdoch shaped her narrative with depth and relentless inevitability. Yet she did so without sacrificing the fun, the creative waywardness, that are her trademarks. Irish-born herself, Murdoch wrote with warm nostalgia and uncanny ...

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Book and the Brotherhood

Book and the Brotherhood more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

In the struggle between good and evil--a constant in Murdoch's novels--the only allies on the side of the good, in a generally hostile world, are art, magic, and religion.

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The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

A violent death in a Whitehall office precipitates a series of cataclysmic events involving a vast and typically Murdochian cast of characters, including the bureau chief and his complacent wife, a pair of 9-year-old twins and their cat and dog, and a mysterious visitor with strange powers.

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A Fairly Honourable Defeat

A Fairly Honourable Defeat more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

The godlike Julius King--one of Murdoch's prototypical "enchanter" characters--manipulates his friends and acquaintances, playing on their weaknesses for his own ends. In the end, King is not punished for his crimes; the "defeat," rather, is the fate of Rupert, one of his victims.

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Unofficial Rose more books like this

by Murdoch

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Good Apprentice more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Edward Bartram's friend Mark Wilsden dies after Edward gives him a hallucinogenic drug, and Edward seeks redemption for his guilt and self-loathing, finally finding peace when, through the efforts of his nunlike half-sisters, he is reconciled with his long-estranged father, who is able to grant him the forgiveness he seeks.

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Message to the Planet more books like this

by Murdoch

Murdoch's biblically-influenced story explores issues of faith and doubt in the tale of a charismatic man and his effect on a large and various group of characters.

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The Sandcastle more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

An unhappily married middle-aged schoolteacher falls in love with a younger woman and resolves to run off with her and change his life. In the end, his resolve crumbles, however, and he chooses duty over love in a novel that views his behavior ambiguously: Has the hero been cowardly and weak, or noble and brave?

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The philosopher's pupil more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

This novel about the quest for truth reflects Murdoch's status as a philosopher and a scholar of the existentialist movement.

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Unicorn more books like this

by Murdoch

In Murdoch's neo-Gothic allegory, a young woman named Marian Taylor goes to Castle Gaze as a governess and finds not the refuge she hoped for but a fascinating and terrifying power struggle involving cruelty, enchantment, and possibly murder.

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Accidental Man more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

An American expatriate in England during the Vietnam War must choose between love and duty.

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Nuns and Soldiers more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

An ill-assorted couple--Gertrude, an upper-class woman and Tim, a blue collar worker--manage to live happily ever after despite the dire predictions of their friends.

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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch, better known as a fiction-writer, was also a philosophy don at Oxford.

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Italian Girl more books like this

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A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper.

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Jackson's Dilemma more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Edward is about to marry Marian. At a dinner party on the night before their wedding, he receives a note from her canceling the wedding. Jackson, a servant and magician, and the man who brought Edward and his friends together in the first place, feels he must ensure that love triumphs.

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A Word Child more books like this

by Murdoch

Twenty years ago, Hilary Burde committed an act that advanced his own career but did irreparable damage to another man. Now he has fallen in love with that man's wife. Like all of Murdoch's novels, A WORD CHILD contains not only a series of tragicomic, almost farcical sexual escapades involving a cast of eccentrics, but a profound exploration of ...

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The Sacred & Profane Love Machine more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Murdoch tells the story of the effect on two families of Blaise Gavender, who inhabits two households, one that of his "legitimate" family--his wife and son--and the other that of his mistress and their son. These shifting relationships are hauntingly observed by a widowed and jaded novelist named Montague Small.

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Sovereignty of Good more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch, though better known as a novelist, was also a philosophy don at Oxford.

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Henry and Cato more books like this

by Iris Murdoch

After nine years in America, Henry goes home to England when he learns of his brother's death. He becomes reacquainted with his childhood friends, including Cato (now a priest) and Cato's sister Colette.

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