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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

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Irish Murdoch yine felsefeci yazar kimligiyle cikiyor karsimiza. Romanda ele aldigi ask, raslanti, gerceklik gibi temel konular kimi zaman kurmacanin dokusu icinde erimis olarak, kimi zaman da üstünde yüzen bir cicek demeti gibi yogun bir halde sunuluyor. Ölüm dösegindeki ihtiyar Bruno büyük bir kaygiyla gecmisini ve bugününü düsünürken hayati yeniden yormlama noktasina gelir. Sürekli gercekligi sorgular. Yasamis oldugu pek cok seyin bir rüya ...

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A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, Edmund Narraway has returned to his childhood home-for the funeral of his mother. The visit rekindles feelings of affection and nostalgia-but also triggers a resurgence of the tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edmund once again becom...

Reunited childhood friends confront their longings and failures in this "engaging" novel by a Man Booker Prize-winning author (The New York Times). As children growing up in the English countryside, Henry Marshalson and Cato Forbes were inseparable. But, as time went on, their lives took different paths. For Henry, whose older brother would inherit his father's estate, the United States called, with a professorship to teach art history, whi...

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Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Cato's father and his sister Colette wait anxiously to welcome Cato back to sanity after his dubious escapades. Henry's cool mother watches, Cato's impetuous sister intervenes. Blackmail and violence take a hand, and both Henry and Cato return home at last.

Arte e morale sono una cosa sola. La loro essenza è la stessa. L'essenza di entrambe è l'amore. Amore significa comprendere - ed è molto difficile - che qualcosa di altro da sé è reale." Scrittrice e pensatrice, Iris Murdoch ha messo al centro della propria riflessione i rapporti tra arte e filosofia, nel segno di una rigorosa inseparabilità. Avvicinatasi allo studio dell'etica platonica e kantiana nella convinzione che i problemi filosofici f...

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Available exclusively from "Vintage Classics", this is both a remarkable thriller, and a story about being in love. 'A source of wonder and delight' "Spectator

The most authoritative and accessible statement of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in one volume.

For the first time, a selection of Irish Murdoch's most interesting and important letters has been collected together to give us a full, living portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest writers and thinkers. The most significant publication about Murdoch since the wave of books published in the wake of her death.

Edited by Anne Rowe and Avril Horney. This is Iris Murdoch's life, in her own words, from schoolgirl days to her last years told through a collection of letters.

A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare's.

What is obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything, even God. In these essays, she explores questions of good and bad, myth and morality.

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Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disas...