Iris Murdoch



Iris Murdoch

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gender female
place of birth United Kingdom
genre Literature & Fiction

about this author

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) - in full: Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, married name Mrs. J.O. Bailey


British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.

"She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means: by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her own original and created wor...more

books by Iris Murdoch

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avg rating: 3.86 | 2786 ratings | 57 distinct works
The Sea, The Sea The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie
avg rating 3.99 — 429 ratings — published 2001
14 editions
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A Severed Head A Severed Head (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.83 — 260 ratings — published 2004
13 editions
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The Bell The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.93 — 242 ratings — published 2001
11 editions
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Under the Net Under the Net (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.80 — 217 ratings — published 1977
9 editions
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The Black Prince The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
by Iris Murdoch, Martha C. Nussbaum
avg rating 4.02 — 180 ratings — published 2006
9 editions
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch, Peter Reed
avg rating 4.05 — 133 ratings — published 1970
6 editions
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The Green Knight The Green Knight (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.94 — 124 ratings — published 1995
9 editions
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The Unicorn The Unicorn (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.76 — 109 ratings — published 1987
2 editions
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The Good Apprentice The Good Apprentice (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.81 — 103 ratings — published 2001
7 editions
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The Nice and the Good The Nice and the Good (Paperback)
by Iris Murdoch
avg rating 3.86 — 98 ratings — published 1978
8 editions
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quotes by Iris Murdoch

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. "
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"“Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.” "
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