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    Iris Murdoch

    Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Her other books include The Bell, A Severed Head, An Unofficial Rose, The Red and the Green, The Nice and the Good, The Black Prince, Henry and Cato, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, The Message to the Planet, and The Green Knight. As a philosopher, Murdoch's best-known work is The Sovereignty of Good. Wikipedia

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    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels ...
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    Pages in category "Novels by Iris Murdoch" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. An Accidental Man; B. The Bell (novel) The Black Prince (novel) The Book and the Brotherhood; Bruno's Dream; F. A Fairly Honourable Defeat;
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    Iris Murdoch's biographer Peter J. Conradi gives Xenophon as the ultimate source of the title. [2] According to Xenophon's Anabasis, "The Sea!The Sea!" (Thalatta!Thalatta!) was the shout of exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and realised they were saved from death.
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    The Bell, Iris Murdoch's fourth novel, was published in 1958 by Chatto & Windus in Great Britain and Viking Press in the United States. [11]: 9, 12 It was an immediate popular and commercial success, with 30,000 copies of the British edition printed within ten weeks of its publication.[9]: 423 The novel was widely and positively reviewed. ...
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    Pages in category "Works by Iris Murdoch" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. S. Sartre: Romantic Rationalist; The Sovereignty of Good This page was last edited on 4 May 2013, at 20:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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    Peter J. Conradi FRSL (born 8 May 1945) [1] is a British author and academic, best known for his studies of writer and philosopher, Iris Murdoch, [2] who was a close friend. He is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kingston and has been visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and research fellow at University College London.
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    The Black Prince has an unusual structure, consisting of a central first-person narrative bookended by fictional forewords and postscripts written by other characters in the central story. Each view is from an unreliable narrator.. The novel starts with Editor's Foreword ("Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.")
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    9 Children's and young adult literature writers. 10 See also. 11 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This is a list of writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship, who have a Wikipedia page. Writers whose work is in Irish are included. ... Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) James Murphy (1839-1921) Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (born ...
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    In 1950 Iris Murdoch, then a tutor of philosophy at St Anne's College, Oxford, contracted with the Cambridge publishing house Bowes & Bowes to write a short book on the French existentialists.It was to have focussed on the literary works of Sartre, Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir. [1]: 123 This project was not completed, but Murdoch developed the section on Sartre into the monograph Sartre ...

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