• Henry and Cato: A Novel


    • ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
    • ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Under the Net

    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 ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rom... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B004DI7HYM
    • ASIN: B004DI7HYM
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, thi... [Read More]

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

  • The Nice and the Good

    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 black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping.   In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray’s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of violence poiso... [Read More]

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

  • Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy

    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 Julian Esguerra, and her life changes forever. Stolen away to a private island, she finds herself at the mercy of a powerful, dangerous man whose touch makes her burn.A man whose obsession with her knows no bounds. Her enigmatic captor is as cruel as ... [Read More]

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

  • A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly.For more tha... [Read More]

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

  • A Severed Head

    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 reeducation. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, “this is nothing to do with happiness.”A Severed H... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B004ELAAP6
    • ASIN: B004ELAAP6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Iris


    • ASIN: B007L5M0JG
    • ASIN: B007L5M0JG

  • Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4

    #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 hold to care for the last lost boy Ray Quinn hoped to save...RISING TIDESThough not born to the tradition of a waterman, Ethan Quinn has embraced the life. But now, he must face his own dark past to accept not only who he is but what he hopes to becom... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B004TTXLFE
    • ASIN: B004TTXLFE
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ. A fascinating array of men and women hover in urgent orbit around them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his émigré father's patriotic anguish; ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0049MPVI6
    • ASIN: B0049MPVI6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (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 reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.

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

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

    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 in novels that are every bit as entertaining as they are thought provoking (The New York Times). Over the span of her career, she was the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Literary Award, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.  The ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07J9ZQPW5
    • ASIN: B07J9ZQPW5
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Nora Roberts Dream Trilogy

    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 story of Margo, a housekeeper’s daughter who picks up the pieces of a shattered dream to start a new one—with the sisters of her heart...   HOLDING THE DREAM In the second book of Nora Roberts’s Dream Trilogy, the ever practical Kate Powell f... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B004TU4LHA
    • ASIN: B004TU4LHA
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide

    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 provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

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

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

    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 order and a clarity to the mystery of Murdoch's narrative form. She shows how this writer of many genres came to integrate philosophy, morality, psychology, language, and aesthetics in order to call into question the conventions of the English novel.... [Read More]

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

  • Living on Paper : Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995

    Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage,

    • UPC: 48162163
    • Rating: 4.0

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

    The bestselling author of "Possession" pairs her searching intelligence with the insights of psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre in a free-wheeling and exhilarating discussion of one novel each by six women writers--Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot,

    • UPC: 50722079

  • A Guide to Iris Murdoch's The Philosopher's Pupil - eBook

    In this guide's two main chapters, we try to demonstrate how Iris Murdoch invents a classlessly-elitist society in The Philosopher's Pupil and "teases out of thought" both characters and

    • UPC: 531041256

  • The Sandcastle

    A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to

    • UPC: 27549585
    • Rating: 2.5

  • An Accidental Man

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

    • UPC: 519582
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three - eBook

    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

    • UPC: 816208988

  • The Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two - eBook

    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

    • UPC: 478399466

  • The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

    A writer of detective fiction who has not recovered from the loss of his wife becomes involved in the life of a neighbor's

    • UPC: 519587
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Green Knight

    Exploring biblical and medieval themes in a contemporary London setting, the story of two brothers, a murder gone awry, and the outrageous demands of a stranger is filled with symbolism, humor, and suspense. Reprint.

    • UPC: 518043
    • Rating: 3.857

  • The Nice and the Good

    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

    • UPC: 34889672
    • Rating: 4.0

  • IRIS MURDOCH 1969 1st Edition BRUNO’S DREAM hb dj best novel philosopher Booker

    • UPC: 273894039440
    • Category: Antiquarian & Collectable
    • Price: 14 GBP

  • Iris Murdoch

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