- Classic Literature, Fiction, Women authors, English fiction
Iris Murdoch's first novel.Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers.
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Prestige, classical in form, spare and warm.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Reprint Society, Chatto & Windus, Ayrıntı Yayınları
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- Italian, tur, Russian, heb
- ISBN
- 9781850893592
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“WHEN I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong.”
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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