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Sartre by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Sartre'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... -
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91WITH 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... -
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70The 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,... -
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch 9780140014747
Booksplease Price: €20.49A 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... -
The Bell by Iris Murdoch 9780141186696
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141186696Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70After 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... -
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70As 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... -
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26In 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... -
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others. The others, in... -
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Saved 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... -
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.07WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CANDIA MCWILLIAMThe Black Prince is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love.Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding... -
Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Edward 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... -
Iris Murdoch by Richard Todd
Booksplease Price: €85.61Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published... -
The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch 9780140024760
Booksplease Price: €21.13A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forcesMarian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her... -
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Edmund 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... -
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Martin 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... -
The Nice And The Good by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A 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... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58The 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... -
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch 9781504049221
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504049221Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open... -
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch 9780140104707
Booksplease Price: €20.38A group of liberal-minded intellectuals got together in their youth to subsidise their friend, David Crimond to write the definitive book about their political beliefs. Now years later, there is no... -
Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment by A. Rowe 9780230003446
RRP: €107.09Booksplease Price: €96.06This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine,... -
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70In this 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,... -
The Flight From The Enchanter by Iris Murdoch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Annette 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... -
Iris Murdoch by Richard Todd 9780367340421
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.25Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published... -
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch 9780415255523
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €104.80Iris 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... -
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 9780415253994
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.65Iris 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... -
The Sovereignty of Good Iris Murdoch 9780415854733
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.43Iris 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... -
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch 9780142180112
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180112Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch 9780140036114
Booksplease Price: €27.39A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmasSet in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England,... -
Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch 9781453200957
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453200957Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open... -
Nuns and Soldiers Iris Murdoch 9780142180099
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180099Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
Iris Murdoch by Bridget Clarke 9781009571739
Booksplease Price: €66.79Iris Murdoch is well-known for her moral philosophy, especially for the light it sheds on the inner life. This Element focuses on the political significance and contours of Murdoch's ethics. Its... -
Iris Murdoch by Bridget Clarke 9781009358149
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €19.66Iris Murdoch is well-known for her moral philosophy, especially for the light it sheds on the inner life. This Element focuses on the political significance and contours of Murdoch's ethics. Its... -
Iris Murdoch by Anne Rowe 9781789620160
Booksplease Price: €86.92Reviews 'Anne Rowe, a scrupulous Murdoch scholar of many years' standing, has written a slim but comprehensive overview of the writer's career, attending successively to aspects of her output in... -
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch 9780141186160
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €17.09Winner of the Booker Prize-a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering... -
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 9780140014457
Booksplease Price: €12.77Iris Murdoch's debut-a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fameJake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher.Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless... -
A Word Child by Iris Murdoch 9781453201152
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453201152Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open... -
Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment by A. Rowe 9781349281152
RRP: €107.09Booksplease Price: €55.07This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine,... -
The Message To The Planet by Iris Murdoch 9780099583288
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind... -
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch 9780140020038
Booksplease Price: €12.59A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The SeaMartin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife...