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Iris : the life of Iris Murdoch / Peter J. Conradi.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conradi, Peter J., 1945-
- Standardized Title:
- Irish Murdoch a life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murdoch, Iris.
- Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Philosophers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 706 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, 2002.
- Summary:
- Traces the life and career of the philosopher and novelist, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.
- Contents:
- Family Trees xii
- Part I Innocence: Fairy-Tale Princess: 1919-1944
- 1 'You ask how Irish she is?': 1616-1925 3
- 2 No Mean City: 1925-1932 33
- 3 The Clean-Cut Rational World: 1932-1938 57
- 4 A Very Grand Finale: 1938-1939 82
- 5 Madonna Bolshevicka: 1939-1942 109
- 6 This Love Business: 1942-1943 135
- 7 A la Guerre, comme a la Guerre: 1943-1944 164
- Part II Innocence Lost: Storm and Stress: 1944-1956
- 8 A Madcap Tale: 1944-1946 199
- 9 Displaced Persons: 1946-1947 231
- 10 Cambridge: 1947-1948 261
- 11 St Anne's: 1948-1952 288
- 12 Franz Baermann Steiner: 1951-1952 317
- 13 Conversations with a Prince: 1952-1956 345
- 14 An Ideal Co-Child: 1953-1956 376
- Part III Innocence Regained: Wise Child: 1956-1999
- 15 Cedar Lodge: 1956-1961 409
- 16 Island of Spells: 1961-1965 437
- 17 What a Decade!: 1965-1969 467
- 18 Shakespeare and Friends: 1970-1978 497
- 19 Discontinuities: 1971-1978 527
- 20 Icons and Patriarchs: 1978-1994 551
- 21 'Past speaking of': 1994-1999 586.
- Notes:
- Originally published under the title: Iris Murdoch a life.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-676) and index.
- ISBN:
- 039332401X
- 9780393324013
- OCLC:
- 51091852
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