Iris Murdoch

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CANDIA MCWILLIAM The 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 himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably …

A háló alatt Iris Murdoch első, 1954-ben írt regénye. A könyv megjelenése előtt az írónő nevét még csak az Oxfordi Egyetem filozófiai tanszékén ismerték, mint jeles Sartre-kritikust. A könyv végül nemzetközi hírnévhez juttatta. A pikareszk mélyén rejlő mély filozófiai üzenet Murdoch egyik legismertebb regényévé tették …

The Bell is a novel written by Iris Murdoch in 1958. It was her fourth to be published, and is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire.

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many …