Iris Murdoch (Rowe Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Iris Murdoch (Rowe Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public

Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch (Bayley John)(Pevná vazba)

All three books (Iris, Iris and the Friends, and Widower's House) are now available in a single edition, told by the person who knew her best, with gentle humour - at times unbearably moving - in Bayley's portrayal of a remarkable

Under The Net - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Sea, The Sea - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head (Murdoch Iris)(Pevná vazba)

Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

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

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians - from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida - to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial

Fairly Honourable Defeat (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their

The Sovereignty of Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

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

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback)

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism,

Bell - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRYVINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (Bolton Lucy)(Paperback)

Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch's thinking on art, goodness and existentialism Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and

Under The Net (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title -

Sandcastle - Vintage Classics Murdoch Series (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

'It's all dry sand running through the fingers.'When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his

Anna Claren: When everything changed (Claren Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Anne Frank: The Collected Works (Frank Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Minibeasts (O'Daly Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Sartre (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our

Sussex Women (Kramer Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Marrying Simone (Jacobs Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Claude Monet (Sumner Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Edouard Manet (Sumner Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Black Beauty (Sewell Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Unicorn (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALFWhen Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding