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The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92The 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,... -
Sartre by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Sartre'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... -
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92This 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Saved 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... -
Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Edward 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... -
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92As 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... -
An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92After 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 Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Edmund 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Martin 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A 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... -
The Philosopher's Pupil by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68In 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... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The 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... -
Henry And Cato by Iris Murdoch 9780099429081
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Henry 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... -
Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch 9780099285359
Booksplease Price: $18.61Gertrude 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... -
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92In 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Annette 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... -
The Message To The Planet by Iris Murdoch 9780099583288
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56For 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... -
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch 9780099285373
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Bruno, 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... -
The Time Of The Angels by Iris Murdoch 9780099429098
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Carel 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... -
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch 9780142180112
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180112Author Iris MurdochFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint < -
Something Special by Iris Murdoch 9780099422655
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication.Set in... -
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 9780415253994
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.14Iris 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 Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47First published in 1961, The Severed Head is regarded is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works. A dark and ferocious comic masterpiece, the novel traces the turbulent emotional journey of... -
The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community.A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey,... -
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The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch 9780140104707 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.83A 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... -
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch 9780099433576
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Montague 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... -
Under The Net: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Iris 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... -
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch 9780140264920
Booksplease Price: $25.41Best 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... -
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson 9780099723103
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71A brilliant, controversial and insightful biography. Fifteen years ago, Iris Murdoch asked A. N. Wilson to be her biographer. This book is a tribute to the novelist he knew for thirty years. This is... -
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Iris Murdoch Biography by A. N. Wilson 9780091742461 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.46A.N. Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford, which is where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life and it was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that he... -
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch 9780140041118 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.01Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes... -
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Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography by Peter J. Conradi 9780006531753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.78A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation. Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly... -
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Iris Murdoch: A Life - The Authorized Biography by Peter J. Conradi 9780002571234 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $5.23Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S. Byatt notes, she is "absolutely central to our culture". As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $33.22The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson 9781786496058
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn.'ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $20.35The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
The Game by A. S. Byatt
Booksplease Price: $17.63Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them... -
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great... -
The Necessary Angel by C. K. Stead
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.40Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself...