Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: New Millennium Press
Keywords: audiobook, dilemma, jackson’s
Published: 2002-09
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1931056919
ISBN-13: 9781931056915

Iris Murdoch’s 26th novel is a romp as well as an homage to that master of convoluted comedy, Shakespeare. She has adopted a syncopated slightly mocking tone, and many scenes have a distinctly theatrical air. She has also achieved a disarming sense of timelessness, due in part to the fact that her eccentric characters, a close-knit circle of friends, are extremely well-off and spend their days and nights dashing between their country estates and their London houses. The tale begins on the eve of a wedding. Edward is to marry the lovely Marian. Benet, his rather fussy friend and neighbo

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: literature, philosophy, writings, mystics, existentialists
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0140264922
ISBN-13: 9780140264920

Iris Murdoch is a poet, philosopher, novelist, and playwright, and in this collection of her most careful thinking and writing on the relationship between art and philosophy, we are treated to the fruits of decades of good work. Murdoch’s changing ideas about the search for meaning in literature and life lead us down a richly rewarding path. Along the way she discusses T. S. Eliot, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Arnold, and many other major literary figures. For cognitive power, a sweeping overview of Western thought and art, and a respectful engagement with the reader, put it on the shelf bes

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: century, classics, twentieth, penguin, honourable, defeat, fairly
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0141186178
ISBN-13: 9780141186177

In 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.

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: unicorn
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1987-01-06
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 014002476X
ISBN-13: 9780140024760

Marian Taylor accepts a position as companion to Mrs. Hannah Crean-Smith, and gradually comes to the opinion that she is a prisoner of her husband.

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, prince, black
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-03
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0142180114
ISBN-13: 9780142180112

In this riveting tale of love and intellectual intrigue, Murdoch gives us a seductive story with ever-mounting action, including suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. With an Introduction by Martha C. Nussbaum

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, century, classic, apprentice
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0141186682
ISBN-13: 9780141186689

"A brilliant entertainment." (Harold Bloom, The New York Times Book Review) Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world.

Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin Books
Keywords: philosophy, penguin, morals, guide, metaphysics
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140172327
ISBN-13: 9780140172324

The acclaimed author of The Good Apprentice draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. "An utterly absorbing book."--The Wall Street Journal.