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Sovereignty of Good
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
209 kr
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Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored …
Sea, The Sea
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 1999
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
149 kr
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Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation.He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs. But then he meets his …
Black Prince
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2013
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
149 kr
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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement to writing a masterpiece. But the doorbell and the phone keep ringing, and every ring brings with it an ex-wife, a friend …
Existentialists and Mystics
Writings on Philosophy and Literature
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 1999
348 kr
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Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces. Included are her major critiques of …
Unicorn
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALFWhen Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? …
Sandcastle
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 1978
315 kr
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A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyaltyThe quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. …
Severed Head
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
149 kr
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Martin 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 re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic …
Bell
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2004
152 kr
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Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls.It offers a sanctuary for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of the community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives …
Nice and the Good
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2000
152 kr
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A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its many aspects, as embodied in a fascinating array of characters. The resonant sub …
The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell
Av Iris Murdoch
Inbunden, 2016
399 kr
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The Black Prince
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
256 kr
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Sacred And Profane Love Machine
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2003
198 kr
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Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour's difficulties and his neighbour's wife appear to be …
Jackson's Dilemma
Av Iris Murdoch
Inbunden, 2013
203 kr
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Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony. The night is warm and …
Philosopher's Pupil
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2000
169 kr
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In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an …
Flight From the Enchanter
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2000
152 kr
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Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre …
Fairly Honourable Defeat
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2002
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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Everyone is thinking about Julius King.For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. …
The Bell
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
250 kr
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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 …
Sovereignty of Good
Av Iris Murdoch
Inbunden, 2001
1467 kr
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Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored …
Sovereignty of Good
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2013
442 kr
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Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring …
Under The Net
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2002
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator.Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hugo. Hugo is a fireworks manufacturer turned movie producer and majestic philosopher. Hugo loves Sadie. Sadie is a glossy and dazzling film starlet. Of course, …
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2003
166 kr
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The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of …
Sartre
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 1999
133 kr
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Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. Iris Murdoch's pioneering study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's rich and complex oeurve. Combining the …
Good Apprentice
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2000
227 kr
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Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram …
Unofficial Rose
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
152 kr
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After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private …
Henry And Cato
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2002
203 kr
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Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions, one for a God who may or may …
Time Of The Angels
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2002
139 kr
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Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, …
Word Child
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2002
149 kr
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Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for …
Italian Girl
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2000
136 kr
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Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And …
Nuns and Soldiers
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
263 kr
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Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Meanwhile a cohort of interested parties circle. The 'Count', a Polish man in exile watches over Gertrude with loving patience. Tim, a failed painter, plans with his punk girlfriend to live off …
Bruno's Dream
Av Iris Murdoch
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of …
