The novel that launched Iris Murdoch's career - now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series - six gorgeous editions of her best, funniest and most subversive novels published to mark her centenary.
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
Under the Net announces the emergence of a brilliant talent
*Times Literary Supplement*
A dazzling story, light and comic in touch
*The Times*
This is a comedy with that touch of ferocity about it which makes
for excitement
*Elizabeth Jane Howard*
I was drawn to the intellectual speculation and psychological depth
of Murdoch’s writing, and the experience of reading her brought the
realisation that, for me, thinking would always be the greater part
of reading
*Aminatta Forna*
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