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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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    Iris Murdoch is an Irish and British published author. She also went by Dame Jean Iris Murdoch. She was a novelist, philosopher, and lecturer. Murdoch was born July 15, 1919 in Dublin, Ireland. She was the daughter to Irene Alice and Wills John Hughes Murdoch. Her father came from a family that farmed sheep and worked as a civil servant.
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    The first two of his biographical works, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (1998) and Elegy for Iris: A Memoir (1999), were the basis for the Oscar-winning film directed by Richard Eyre Iris (2001), which was very well-received, starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet,Jim Broadbent (who won the Oscar) and Hugh Bonneville.
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    Jan 1, 2024Browse our complete guide to all 35 Iris Murdoch books in order (from the series written by Iris Murdoch). Plus, we've organized our list in order. Iris Murdoch Books in Order (35 Book Series) Description. Iris Murdoch has written a series of 35 books. Here, you can see them all in order! (plus the year each book was published)
  5. thebookerprizes.com

    Nov 9, 2023Iris Murdoch was a productive writer of 26 novels and five works of philosophy. The critic Francis Wyndham pictured her 'seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal'. She worked and reworked her themes over four decades, forever seeking to perfect her ...
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    Dec 2, 2023Photograph of Oxford, 2014, via Pixabay The first work of Murdoch's we will focus on is The Sovereignty of the Good.We remarked earlier on the generation of philosophers whom Murdoch was a part of and noted that all of the philosophers mentioned made distinctive contributions to the study of ethics. It is worth stressing that, after the war and especially as Murdoch became an academic in her ...
  7. thegreatestbooks.org

    This page contains all the books written by the author Iris Murdoch. The Greatest Books Authors; Lists All Lists; The Global Canon ... Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. ... the work challenges readers to consider ...
  8. Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends.
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    Jul 13, 2023For readers looking to explore Iris Murdoch's works, here is a list of seven must-read books: Under the Net; The Bell; The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head; The Black Prince ... Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. Under the Net is Murdoch's debut novel. Written in 1954, this novel follows the story of an aspiring writer who finds himself entangled ...

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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

    BornJean Iris Murdoch, July 15, 1919, Dublin, Ireland
    Age at death79 years
    DiedFebruary 08, 1999, Oxford, England
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