Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.
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.
A S Byatt (Introducer)
A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and
critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession
(winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The
Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won
the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed
CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016
for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak
Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian
Andersen Literature Award.
Her novels evoked beautifully the atmosphere of the country gardens
(The Bell, 1958) or the mysterious London streets (The Time of the
Angels, 1968) in which they were set, with their characters engaged
in intriguing love relationships, from the totally innocent to the
wholly weird.
*The Times*
Iris Murdoch really knows how to write, can tell a story, delineate
a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy
*John Betjeman*
Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she
seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a
power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist
*Sunday Times*
A distinguished novelist of a rare kind
*Kingsley Amis*
A tragi-comic masterpiece... A magnificent novel
*The Lady*
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