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  • The Sacred And Profane Love Machine
    Iris Murdoch
    Montague Small an obsessive writer of detective thrillers mourns his lately dead wife who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure. He detests his fictional detective. His interest in his neighbour’s difficulties and his neighbour’s wife appear to be his only consolations after all. The neighbour Blaise Gavender is an amateur psy...
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    22,26 €

  • A Severed Head
    Iris Murdoch / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    JB Priestley’s adaptation of Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men ...
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    18,63 €

  • The Sovereignty of Good
    Iris Murdoch
    Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ’vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This bri...
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    45,42 €

  • The Message To The Planet
    Iris Murdoch
    For years Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden’s friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater painter thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne ex-preist thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman poet is dying because he thinks Marcus...
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    24,90 €

  • Henry And Cato
    Iris Murdoch
    Henry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning to his mother. His friend Cato is struggling with two ambiguous intermingled passions one for a God who may or may not exist the other for a petty criminal who may or may not be capable of salvati...
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    22,20 €

  • Something Special
    Iris Murdoch
    Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story that Iris Murdoch ever wrote for publication.Set in Dublin against the vividly recognisable backdrop of the writer’s native city in the late fifties Something Special is the story of Yvonne an ordinary bold young Irish woman who...
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    17,84 €

  • The Sovereignty of Good
    Iris Murdoch
    Iris Murdoch once observed: ’philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious’. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch’s questions - an...
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    30,51 €

  • Brunos Dream
    Iris Murdoch
    Bruno dying obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation lies at the center of an intricate spider’s web of relationships and passions: Bruno’s estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby Bruno’s widowed son-in-law consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid one of Murdoch’s finest comic creations; creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will fig...
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    22,46 €

  • The Good Apprentice
    Iris Murdoch
    Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God he invents his own methods which include celibacy chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity his sanity and his motives. Stuart’s step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has he believes killed his best friend. He drea...
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    23,71 €

  • Something Special
    Iris Murdoch
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    11,78 €

  • THE BLACK PRINCE
    Iris Murdoch
    Former tax inspector Bradley Pearson is a writer who has published nothing - his precept is perfect; his maxim is to wait - unlike his best friend Arnold Baffin who is a prolific, highly-successful writer of second-rate novels. Now Bradley is to retire to his seaside cottage to write his masterpiece. In a series of smartly comic scenes, his departure is thwarted by a succesisio...
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    18,42 €

  • The Italian Girl
    Iris Murdoch / James Saunders
    Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. He returns home for his mother’s funeral and finds himself involved in the same awful problems he left behind, together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing 'Italian girl'.4 women, 3 men ...
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    18,75 €