Iris Murdoch

Henry and Cato is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1976, it was her eighteenth novel. Set in London and the English countryside, the plot centres on two childhood friends who have not seen each other for several years. Henry is an art historian who returns to England from the United States upon inheriting his …

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature is a book by Iris Murdoch.

Bruno, 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 Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic …

An Accidental Man is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1971, it was her fourteenth novel. The complex story is set in London and involves a large number of characters, many of whom are related to each other by family or marriage. The "accidental man" is the hapless but charming Austin Gibson Grey, whose actions …

One of the collected editions of Iris Murdoch's works, published as a 70th birthday tribute. "An Unofficial Rose" is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them.