Acastos by Iris Murdoch ( 1988)
In two Platonic diaglogues, "Art and Eros" and "Above the Gods," "Acastos, Plato's friend and a sturdy, able thinker, explains the meaning of goodness and the role of faith as they pertain to the modern world.
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch ( 1988)
Austin Gibson Grey, an American living in London, blames fate when he is drafted during the Vietnam War.
The Bell by Iris Murdoch ( 2001)
The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, follows the lives of Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover.
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Black Prince by Iris Murdoch ( 2003)
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, writes about his life, describes his difficult relationships with his family and friends, and reveals desperate his inner struggles to face the reality of failure.
Reprint.
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch ( 1988)
Years ago, a group of friends bonded together to finance a political and philosophical book to be written by one of them. Now, amidst a midsummer ball at Oxford, a crisis occurs, and the vindictive ghosts of the past invade the present.
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch ( 1987)
As an old man lies on his deathbed reliving his past in reverie, each person involved in his life undergoes a subtle transformation.
Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch ( 1999)
Best known as the author of 26 novels, the late Murdoch also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays.
The Fire and the Sun Why Plato Banished the Artists by Iris Murdoch ( 1991)
The novelist blends philosophy and metaphysics to examine the nature and origin of Plato's hostile views toward art and its role in life.
The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch ( 1987)
A bewitching young man is determined to charm an attractive, unworldly woman. .
The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch ( 1994)
When an attempt by the sharp, feral, uncommonly intelligent Lucas to murder his brother, Clement, backfires and Lucas kills a stranger, the stranger reappears with specific demands for reparation.
Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch ( 1977)
Cato Forbes slips a revolver into the darkened Thames during the hours when Henry Marshalson is flying back to England to claim the family estate, now his because of his older brother's death.
Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch ( 1979)
A brief novel full of melodramatic sexual alliances, in which the hero falls in love with his dead mother's housekeeper.
The Italian Girl:a Play by Iris Murdoch, James Saunders ( 1968)
Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch ( 1997)
On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions.
Joanna Joanna A Play in Two Acts by Iris Murdoch ( 1994)
Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch ( 1990)
Metaphysician Marcus Vallar miraculously cures a penniless Irish poet and sets off events that touch an ever-widening circle, in a story whose theme is the mystery of being human.
Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch ( 1994)
The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. "An utterly absorbing book".--The Wall Street Journal.
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch ( 1978)
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.
The One Alone by Iris Murdoch ( 1995)
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch ( 1984)
At an imaginary English spa, Professor Rozanov settles down to write his great book and his former student, George McCaffrey, decides their teacher-pupil relationship is a life-long one.
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch ( 1988)
An Irish family becomes involved in events leading up to the Easter Rebellion.
Reynolds Stone An Address by Iris Murdoch ( 1981)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch ( 1984)
A writer of detective fiction who has not recovered from the loss of his wife becomes involved in the life of a neighbor's family.
Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch ( 1978)
A respectable, married schoolmaster faces a scandal when he falls in love with a young painter.
Sartre, Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch ( 1979)
The Servants and the Snow ; The Three Arrows ; The Black Prince Three Plays by Iris Murdoch ( 1989)
Severed Head by Iris Murdoch ( 1976)
Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion.
The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch ( 1988)
A London minister has an affair first with his housekeeper, then with his own daughter. After his loss of faith and eventual suicide, the rectory is cleaned out by a Russian émigré who comforts himself with happy memories of Russia before the revolution.
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch ( 1995)
Writer Jake Donaghue's adventures in London and Paris include falling in and out of love, kidnapping a canine film star, and trailing a onetime friend.
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch ( 1987)
Marian Taylor accepts a position as companion to Mrs. Hannah Crean-Smith, and gradually comes to the opinion that she is a prisoner of her husband.
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch ( 1987)
Widower Hugh Peronett becomes disturbed when he discovers that his married son is having an affair with his own former girlfriend.
Word Child by Iris Murdoch ( 1987)
After years of obscurity in a Bayswater flat, Oxford graduate Hilary Burde has the opportunity to atone for a grievous offense which he committed twenty years earlier.
A Year of Birds by Iris Murdoch ( 1986)
Poems describe each season of birds from January's seagulls, March's doves, and June's magpies to October's swan.
A Year of Birds Poems by Iris Murdoch, Reynolds Stone ( 1978)
Academic year 2009/2010
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