Iris Murdoch

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  • Henry and Cato: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Under the Net

    • ASIN: B004DI7HYM
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Iris Murdoch's debut—a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fameJake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher.Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘... [Read More]

  • The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    • ASIN: 0141186690
    • ISBN: 0141186690
    • Brand: Murdoch, Iris/ Byatt, A. S. (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea 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 installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and... [Read More]

  • The Nice and the Good

    • ASIN: 0140030344
    • ISBN: 0801680557
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.   John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and ... [Read More]

  • Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy

    • ASIN: B014RGHHDA
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Mozaika Publications

    All 3 books in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, available for the first time in one convenient, discounted bundle. Over 1000 pages of addictive, thrilling dark romance! “Will you ever let me go?” “No, Nora,” he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. “Never.” On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Nora Leston meets J... [Read More]

  • A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    • ASIN: 0141186178
    • ISBN: 0141186178
    • Brand: Murdoch, Iris/ Reed, Peter J. (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The SeaIn a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted ... [Read More]

  • A Severed Head

    • ASIN: B004ELAAP6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The SeaMartin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducatio... [Read More]

  • Iris

    • ASIN: B007L5M0JG

  • Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4

    • ASIN: B004TTXLFE
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a collection including all four novels in her captivating saga about the lives and loves of four brothers on the windswept shores of the Chesapeake Bay.SEA SWEPTCameron Quinn is coming home to say goodbye to the only father he ever loved. And he’ll have to put his fast-paced life on h... [Read More]

  • Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

    • ASIN: B0049MPVI6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A dazzling meditation on love and honor, greed and generosity, passion and death, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The SeaSet in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who ha... [Read More]

  • The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books)

    • ASIN: 0140041117
    • ISBN: 0140041117
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators at any rate—a morality play, rich in reflection... [Read More]

  • The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two: The Flight from the Enchanter, The Red and the Green, and The Time of the Angels

    • ASIN: B07J9ZQPW5
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    Three unforgettable novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, the Sea and “consummate storyteller” (The Independent).   “One of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian), the “prodigiously inventive” British author Iris Murdoch grappled with questions of morality as well as the nature of love ... [Read More]

  • Nora Roberts Dream Trilogy

    • ASIN: B004TU4LHA
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House, but each grow to fulfill their own unique destinies in this collection that includes all three novels in the dramatic Dream Trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.DARING TO DREAM Nora Roberts begins her Dream Trilogy with the... [Read More]

  • Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide

    • ASIN: 0099452227
    • ISBN: 0099452227
    • Manufacturer: Random House UK

    In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Iris Murdoch. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Iris Murdoch, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Murdoch's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provi... [Read More]

  • Patterned Aimlessness: Iris Murdoch's Novels of the 1970s and 1980s

    • ASIN: 0820317071
    • ISBN: 0820317071
    • Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press

    The novels of Iris Murdoch are lively journeys across landscapes teeming with ideas. Such texts as An Accidental Man, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea blend art and philosophy in tales that have intrigued and puzzled readers like few other contemporary novels. In Patterned Aimlessness Barbara Stevens Heusel brings an ... [Read More]

  • The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three: A Word Child, An Unofficial Rose, and Bruno's Dream

    • ASIN: B07J6S4RC9
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, the Sea and “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).   A “consummate storyteller,” British author Iris Murdoch grappled with questions of morality as well as the nature of love in novels that are every bit as entertaining as they are thought provoking (... [Read More]

  • The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics)

    • ASIN: B008LNSKL4
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

  • Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison

    • ASIN: 0679777539
    • ISBN: 9780679777533
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. T... [Read More]

  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

    • ASIN: B002RI92BQ
    • Manufacturer: Penguin

  • Caught Inside (Boys on the Brink Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01HTYPXSI
    • Manufacturer: Beaten Track Publishing

    Luke believes he has his life figured out...and then he meets Theo.It should have been simple - a summer spent with his girlfriend Zara at her family's holiday cottage in Cornwall. Seventeen-year-old Luke Savage jumps at the chance, envisioning endless hours of sunbathing on the private beach and riding the waves on his beloved surfboard. He isn't ... [Read More]

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