Wed Nov 17 06:37:12 2010 UTClccn-n80-13587Novelists, English--20th centuryPhilosophers--Great BritainWomen novelists, English--20th century0.440.540.64Iris_Murdochn 80013587oca00396058aMurdoch, IrisBayley, IrisMurdoch, Jean IrisMėrdok, AĭrisMurdokh, AirisМердок, АйрисМердок, А.מורדוך, אייריסמרדוק, אייריסlccn-n50-5533Bayley, John1925-lccn-n79-106134Sartre, Jean-Paul1905-1980lccn-n85-25669Conradi, Peter J.1945-edtlccn-n50-32940Byatt, A. S.(Antonia Susan)1936-lccn-n79-139459Platolccn-n79-95521University of Oxfordlccn-n87-921595Eyre, Richard1943-auslccn-n79-116394Priestley, J. B.(John Boynton)1894-1984lccn-n79-27192Fowles, John1926-2005lccn-n87-856331Dench, Judi1934-actMurdoch, IrisMurdoch, Iris100Didactic fictionLove storiesDomestic fictionMystery fictionDetective and mystery storiesComediesEnglish fictionErotic storiesErotic fictionPicaresque literatureEgoismFrance, SouthernTriangles (Interpersonal relations)PrisonersTrials (Murder)ArtistsEx-nunsFemale friendshipWidowsMetaphysicsMurderSartre, Jean-Paul,--1905-1980English fictionReligionPlatoGood and evilAuthorsActorsIrelandDramaMiddle-aged menBrothersInterpersonal relationsMan-woman relationshipsAccidentsUniversity of OxfordCriticsWomen novelists, EnglishDeathMarried peopleFriendshipPhilosophersEthicsMarriageBayley, John,--1925-College teachersAlzheimer's disease--PatientsPhilosophyNovelists, EnglishBiographyGreat BritainEngland--LondonLiteratureDidactic fiction, EnglishWomen and literatureHistoryCriticism, interpretation, etc.EnglandMurdoch, IrisFiction19011938195019521953195419551956195719581959196019611962196319641965196619671968196919701971197219731974197519761977197819791980198119821983198419851986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201189499452105984book823.914pr6063.u7ocn029052835ocn319517910ocn186374495ocn054016604ocn440688972ocn444018430ocn4418254568973473178Мердок, Айрис摩多克מורדוך, אייריס梅铎, 艾瑞斯מרדוק, אייריסМердок, А2445303080ocn004136290sw004136290:lccn-n80-13587Truebook19780.53Murdoch, IrisLove stories

Charles Arrowby's peaceful retirement in his isolated home by the sea is suddenly violently disturbed by a succession of strange events and visits from people from his past.

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Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.

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Edward gives his ingenuous friend, Mark, a drugged sandwich, a prank which ends tragically. Edward's subsequent guilt, self-hatred, and crisis of conscience are the focal point of the story.

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Explores the relationship among a group of friends from their Oxford days onwards. Their pledge to finance the writing career of a member of their group binds them to his maniacal and immoral nature, hurdling them into a web of passion, hatred, murder and suicide.

2126249465ocn000368577sw000368577:lccn-n80-13587Truebook19650.55Murdoch, IrisHistorical fiction

Med påskeoprøret i Dublin som baggrund skildres de psykologiske forviklinger i en slægt af blandet irsk-engelsk herkomst.

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First published in 1954.

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Satirisk roman om en yngre engelsk vinhandlers ægteskab og hans kærlighedsaffærer.

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A cynical manipulation of human nature by a so-called friend, brings distress to a middle class family.

+-+32613669652037231542ocn006421233sw006421233:lccn-n80-13587Truebook19810.52Murdoch, IrisDidactic fiction

Anne Cavidge leaves the nunnery and remeets an old friend, Gertrude Openshaw, who is going through a crisis in her life.

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John Ducanes undersøgelser i forbindelse med en Whitehall-kollegas selvmord påvirker hele hans opfattelse af omverdenen og medmenneskenes ondskab, selv under en ferie i Dorset hos Octavian og Kate Gray.

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An enthralling story of love and betrayal, faith and doubt, and the bewildered striving of men and women confronted with the mystery of being human. "Full of the rough-and-tumble, the real life, the spirit ... I was at all times firmly in its grip."--Anatole Broyard, The New York times book review. "Murdoch works with an intellectual daring most writers only dream of."--The Philadelphia inquirer. Charismatic thinker and healer Marcus Vallar is missing. Everyone agrees he must be found, especially his ardent but uncertain young disciple, Alfred Ludens, who believes Vallar has discovered a secret of vital importance to mankind. Vallar is also needed to rescue Patrick Fenman, a penniless Irish poet who is dying of a disease that he believes is the result of a curse Vallar has put on him. When Vallar miraculously cures Patrick with a laying on of hands, he sets in motion the tide of events that touches an ever-widening circle of men and women, including his own daughter.

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In a small circle of friends in London, some disturbing occurrences are taking place: Lucas Graffe, a reclusive academic, kills a man in self-defense, and disappeara immediately after the trail, leaving his brother, the charismatic actor Clement Graffe, tortured by his absence. Their friend Bellamy James rids himself of all ties and possessions, even giving away his beloved dog. Yearning for simplicity and purification, he prepares himself for a monastic life. And outside Clifton, the house where the widowed Louise Anderson lives with her three daughters, a very peculiar man is watching.

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Roman. En mand elsker både sin kone og sin elskerinde, og kan ikke vælge imellem dem, - skildrer kærlighedens mange ansigter og selvbedragne mennesker.

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In a stately English mansion, friends and family are arriving for the wedding of the host's daughter, Marian. Out of the blue, Marian breaks off the engagement and disappears, throwing everything and everyone in disarray. So starts a tale which revolves round a mysterious and charismatic figure, in this case Jackson, a manservant who manipulates everything behind the scenes much more than anyone realizes. By the author of The Green Knight.

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An ageing philosophy professor returns to his native English town and stirs up all kinds of trouble among the inhabitants. Many of them hope that his arrival will somehow redeem their aimless, unhappy lives.

1802207553ocn000232056sw000232056:lccn-n80-13587Truebook19710.55Murdoch, IrisDidactic fiction

Austin Gibson Grey, an American living in London, blames fate when he is drafted during the Vietnam War.

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The eccentric members of an Anglican lay community strive for Utopian ideals in this tragi-comedy of misapplied love.

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When Marian Taylor is hired as a companion to an isolated, lonely women in a remote castle, she discovers that the woman is actually a prisoner in her own home, and tries to uncover the reason for the woman's predicament.

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A tribute to author Iris Murdoch, now stricken with Alzheimer's disease, written by her husband of over forty years, in which he discusses their passionate love relationship and traces the progression of her affliction.

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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Iris Murdoch.

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Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.

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"Iris Murdoch's life - like her books - was full of extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of her time. During the war she pondered Aldous Huxley's doctrine that, for a writer, 'it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters,' and she later wrote that the person who might help her better herself 'must not distinguish between me and my work'. She was sometimes portrayed as a bourgeois grandee living an unworldly, detached intellectual life, inventing a fantastical alternative world for compensation; but much that was thought to be romance in her work turns out to be reality. 'Real life is so much odder than any book,' she wrote to a friend, and her life was as exciting and improbable as her fiction. Her novels are not just stylised comedies of manners with artificial complications, but reflect passionately lived experience, albeit wonderfully transmuted. Peter Conradi's biography returns the reader to her best work, through a quest for the living flesh-and-blood creature: the Irishwoman, the Communist-bohemian, the Treasury civil servant, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic. It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--BOOK JACKET.

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"In this book, Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Characterizing Murdoch's position as a form of "reflexive moral realism," the book establishes her contribution to moral inquiry by placing her work in the context of current debates in moral theory and religious ethics. In doing so, Antonaccio advances a thesis about the underlying structure of Murdoch's moral thought and suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy." "This study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.

6216436ocn015108856sw014904419:lccn-n80-13587Falsebook19870.70Johnson, Deborah5845844ocn000895448sw000895448:lccn-n80-13587Truebook19660.69Wolfe, Peter5405437ocn003072273sw003072273:lccn-n80-13587Falsebook19760.71Byatt, A. S5295325ocn009465428sw006289475:lccn-n80-13587Falsebook19840.72Hague, Angela5065235ocn006142591sw006142591:lccn-n80-13587Falsebook19790.73Todd, Richard4565616ocn031754247sw031754247:lccn-n80-13587Falsebook19950.76Spear, Hilda D

Iris Murdoch published her twenty-fifth novel in 1993. She has been continuously producing and publishing novels since the appearance of Under the Net in 1954. Her interest in moral problems has inclined her towards what could be seen as an unusual view of human character and human life, and has led her to developing situations which are often bizarre and offering solutions which are unsettling. The present study guides the reader through the novels, tracing basic patterns which run throughout the work and showing how the novels help to elucidate one another. Her philosophical works are referred to in order to illustrate how Murdoch uses the ingenuity and intricacy of her plots to reinforce the subtlety and anxiety of the human response to such problems as the nature of reality and of Good and Evil. At the same time, the book suggests the interconnections between the early, middle and late novels, and looks at the progressive moral discourse which the novels propose.

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