1. fivebooks.com

    Miles Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester, The Lead Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review, the author of Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2010) and the editor of Incest in Contemporary Literature (Manchester UP, 2018).
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  3. goodreads.com

    This book is dubbed Murdoch's first "English novel," given that it is set in the heart of the English countryside and within a large estate that houses the self-supporting lay community of Imber Court that in turn encircles an Anglican nunnery (the Abbey). ... **Photo images within my review are of the author, Iris Murdoch, at various ...
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    Format:Paperback
  4. goodreads.com

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. ... Now that I come to think of it while writing this review, Murdoch's book is not bad at all: it's actually really good, but it just ...
    3.8/5
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    Author:Iris MurdochFormat:Paperback
  5. patricktreardon.com

    The Bell by Iris Murdoch, published in 1958, is something of a time capsule. It is difficult to imagine a novel like this being written today. Murdoch's subject is holiness and sin. I suspect that no modern novelist would be able to take up such material without an edge of irony or a framework of skepticism.
  6. thebookerprizes.com

    Nov 9, 2023The Black Prince (1973) - this month's Booker Prize Book of the Month - may well be Murdoch's best novel, a sustained achievement which feels like a culmination of her talents. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize but didn't win, against a very strong shortlist - The Dressmaker, A Green Equinox, The Siege of Krishnapur - all characterised by a blend of black humour and ...
  7. kirkusreviews.com

    Murdoch's disappointing latest (after The Green Knight, 1994, etc., etc.) is a reprisal of her usual themes without her usual verve: a mysterious Calibanlike figure eases the heartache of a circle of friends. Murdoch, whose novels, like clever British puzzles, are rich in intellectual allusions and paradox, has always scanted descriptive detail, preferring plots shaped by ideas. This time ...
  8. harvardreview.org

    Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War: Letters & Diaries, 1939-1945 edited by Peter J. Conradi. reviewed by Laura Albritton. A Writer at War collects correspondence and diary entries by Irish-born author and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch, perhaps the most criminally under-read writer in America at this time. Why Murdoch should be under-read in the States is a mystery.
  9. literaryladiesguide.com

    A 1978 Review of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch. From the original review of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch by Lorna Sage in the Observer Sun, London, August 27, 1978: "Those who want to be saved," wrote Iris Murdoch in her book on Plato, "should look at the stars and talk philosophy, not write or go to the theatre." ...
  10. kirkusreviews.com

    With her customary intellectual verve, Murdoch (The Message to the Planet, 1990, etc.)—that forthright investigator of profound mysteries—transfers the biblical story of Cain and Abel and the medieval Green Knight to a contemporary setting. That setting is suburban London, and because descriptive details are not Murdoch's strength—she thinks rather than looks- -characters and places have ...
  11. bookloverbookreviews.com

    Get your copy of Under the Net from:. Genre: Audio, Classics, Drama, Literature, Adventure, Mystery This review contributes to my participation in the 2015 Audiobook Challenge and Back to the Classics Challenge 2015.. About the Author, Iris Murdoch. Iris Murdoch was one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century.She was awarded the 1978 Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea ...

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