- Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, Classic Literature
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. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Random House UK, Open Road Media, Piper
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- French, English, Dutch, German
- ISBN
- 9782070373109
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Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, *Under the Net* (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel *The Sea, The Sea* won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, *The Times* ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch))
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