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Jan 3, 2019 · Go for the books Murdoch is best known for, particularly the Booker Prize-winning, ‘THE SEA, THE SEA,’ about a retired theater director who learns that his adolescent love, Hartley, has ...
Jul 13, 2019 · Iris Murdoch. This article is more than 4 years old. Iris Murdoch at 100: ‘Her books are full of passion and disaster’. Love, sadness, fear, lust, power ... Murdoch’s strange, radical...
Mar 23, 2022 · Iris Murdoch. First published Wed Mar 23, 2022; substantive revision Tue Apr 19, 2022. Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy.
Aug 8, 2019 · Mon 8 Feb 1999 20.25 EST. Iris Murdoch, the novelist and philosopher, who has died aged 79, was one of the best and most influential writers of the 20th century. Above all, she kept the...
Jun 25, 2019 · June 25, 2019. People who met the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) tended to want to describe her. She had big, round blue eyes, strawlike hair and a broad face with...
Feb 8, 1999 · Dame Jean Iris Murdoch. Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text.
Nov 6, 2023 · The fictional authors at the centre of Iris Murdoch’s best novel embody the tortured philosopher in search of perfection and the prolific, publicly celebrated novelist. Written by Miles Leeson. Published November 6, 2023. In her journal on 21 December 1971, Iris Murdoch recorded ‘Finished BP today. Thank God’.
