A novel that offers uplifting lessons in love - 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 (Author)
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.
Sarah Perry (Introducer)
Sarah Perry is the internationally best-selling author of the
novels Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood, and
the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstone's
Book of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award and
has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women's
Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the
Costa Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and has a PhD in Creative Writing.
She's writing about the only things that matter – love, goodness
and how to be happy
*Independent*
The plot is both comical and moving, and it’s a book that everyone
who’s ever been tempted to throw in the towel and become a hermit
should read....despite the grand subjects at issue, the novel’s
tone is not at all dry or didactic – it is, on the contrary,
wonderfully lively and poignant at the same time, tender with a
sprightly social comedy reminiscent of PG Wodehouse and Barbara
Pym
*Guardian*
Her characters are described with loving exactitude and in such
depth that their struggles to define what it means to live a good
life take on dramatic force
*New York Times*
How bloody good her novels are – how intelligent, how lucent, how
divinely crazy. They’re fun – I’d forgotten that
*Guardian*
Above all, she was a consummate story-teller, prodigiously
inventive and generous, in the realist tradition of Dickens, Jane
Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
*Independent*
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