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1	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.84! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	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. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The bell more books like this 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Black Prince more books like this by Murdoch 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Unofficial Rose more books like this by Murdoch see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	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? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Accidental Man more books like this by Iris Murdoch An American expatriate in England during the Vietnam War must choose between love and duty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.85! \| first editions
20	Italian Girl more books like this by Murdoch A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.21! \| first editions
21 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.85! \| first editions
23 view cover	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	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. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $10.73! \| first editions \| SVS
25	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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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