Iris Murdoch művei

The Bell

Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls.<BR><BR>It offers a sanctuary for those who can neither live in the world, nor ou...

The Unicorn

When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a numb...

A word child

The Time of the Angels

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

A World Child

The bell

Nuns and soldiers

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of...

The Time of the Angels

An accidental man

The Message to the Planet

Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, explores the meaning of life in a story of love and betrayal, faith and ...

The Good Apprentice

Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced ...

A Severed Head

As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest...

An Unofficial Rose

After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for...

Existentialists and Mystics

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetic...

The Flight from the Enchanter

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Ros...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate throu...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

The Philosopher's Pupil

When George McCaffrey’s car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame. Nobody, that is, ex...

Henry and Cato

This is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and lan...

The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow

Under the net

Jackson's Dilemma

Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under wa...

Nuns and Soldiers

Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the rece...

The Black Prince

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hop...

Bruno's Dream

Bruno is nearly ninety. Obsessed with his past and a passion for spiders, he is the centre of a complex web of relationships involving hi...

An Accidental Man

Les Cloches

The Flight From The Enchanter

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Ros...

The Book and the Brotherhood

The Green Knight

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary...

The Sandcastle

The Italian Girl

A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning auth...

The Bell

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being ...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

A Severed Head

The Nice and the Good

Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to ...

The Black Prince

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hop...

The Flight from the Enchanter

The philosopher's Pupid

Under the Net

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, ...

A Severed Head

The Unicorn

When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confro...

4 db The Lost Birthday + The Sandcastle + The Silver Sword + Lion at Large

Under the Net

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The sea, the sea

Die Souveränität des Guten

The Bell

The Sovereignty of Good

Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch,...

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