Iris Murdoch - Free Library Land Online

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As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration, violence and suicide - and yet succeeds in making of them a book that is brilliantly enjoyable.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Black Prince https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49244-the_black_prince.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49244-the_black_prince.html

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Red and the Green (Vintage Classics) https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49250-the_red_and_the_green_vintage_classics.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49250-the_red_and_the_green_vintage_classics.html

The Red and the Green (Vintage Classics)

As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile Pat's Protestant soldier cousin, Andrew Chase-White, puzzles out his complex emotions about Ireland and the girl he loves. Weaving between them moves Millie Kinnard: fast, feminist, and only just respectable.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Nice and the Good https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49239-the_nice_and_the_good.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49239-the_nice_and_the_good.html

A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable – prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate. Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to Gray’s Dorset home everything becomes even more mysterious and nothing is quite as it seems.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Jackson's Dilemma https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49236-jacksons_dilemma.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49236-jacksons_dilemma.html

On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions.]]> Mon, 23 Oct 1995 16:24:49 +0200 The Flight From the Enchanter https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49237-the_flight_from_the_enchanter.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49237-the_flight_from_the_enchanter.html

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melancholy 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 of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Italian Girl https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49242-the_italian_girl.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49242-the_italian_girl.html

A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. The funeral of Edward’s mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood home, it also triggers a resurgence of the family tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edward becomes tangled in his family’s web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos. The Italian Girl is Murdoch’s compelling story of a man’s reunion with his estranged family, and of the tragedy that shocks them all into confronting their dark past.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 An Accidental Man https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49245-an_accidental_man.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49245-an_accidental_man.html

A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of. What is duty here, what is self-interest, what is cowardice? Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man of the title, is accident-prone, also prone to bring disaster to his friend sand relations. He blames fate. But are we not all accidental, one of his victims asks. Fate and accidents make deep moral dilemmas for the characters in the long and complex tale.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 A Word Child https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49248-a_word_child.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49248-a_word_child.html

Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Sandcastle https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49255-the_sandcastle.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49255-the_sandcastle.html

The 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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Unicorn https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49241-the_unicorn.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49241-the_unicorn.html

When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Under the Net https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49254-under_the_net.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49254-under_the_net.html

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot in a film-set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Good Apprentice https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49238-the_good_apprentice.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49238-the_good_apprentice.html

A sly, witty, and beautifully orchestrated tale about the difficulty of being good 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. Consumed with guilt, Edward experiences a debilitating crisis of conscience. While Edward torments himself for not being good, his stepbrother, Stuart, a brilliant mathematics student, quits his promising scholastic career to live like a monk, devoting himself to the difficult task of becoming good. As Stuart seeks salvation, Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice, first published in 1986*, is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world. *First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. 1986]]> Wed, 23 Oct 1985 16:24:49 +0300 The Book and the Brotherhood https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49253-the_book_and_the_brotherhood.html https://horror.library.land/iris-murdoch/49253-the_book_and_the_brotherhood.html

A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends "commissioned" one of their number to write a political book.
Time passes and opinions change. "Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?" Rose Curtland asks. "The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history," Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.
Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.]]> Fri, 23 Oct 1987 16:24:51 +0300