Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"She writes thrillingly well, in lucid, balanced sentences that owe something to the scrupulous qualifications and dry moral vigilance of Henry James. She sees human beings, if one may generalize, as most active in their own behalfs, and the ruthless drive of her characters, as filtered through the rueful sensibility of one of her female observers, can shock us into laughter. She is, in the English tradition, a thoroughly social novelist, for whom there lies beyond the human spectacle nothing but death and scenery, yet she brings to the English scene an outsider's eye."
a. Anita Brookner
b. Margaret Drabble
c. Iris Murdoch
d. Barbara Pym
e. Virginia Woolf
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"She writes thrillingly well, in lucid, balanced sentences that owe something to the scrupulous qualifications and dry moral vigilance of Henry James. She sees human beings, if one may generalize, as most active in their own behalfs, and the ruthless drive of her characters, as filtered through the rueful sensibility of one of her female observers, can shock us into laughter. She is, in the English tradition, a thoroughly social novelist, for whom there lies beyond the human spectacle nothing but death and scenery, yet she brings to the English scene an outsider's eye."
a. Anita Brookner
b. Margaret Drabble
c. Iris Murdoch
d. Barbara Pym
e. Virginia Woolf
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Iris Murdoch
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born
July 15, 1919
died
February 08, 1999
gender
female
place of birth
Dublin, Ireland
genre
Literature & Fiction, Philosophy
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
Irish-born 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 world--the world she must have glimpsed as sh...more
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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.95 — 869 ratings — published 1978 21 editions |
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A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.74 — 502 ratings — published 1961 14 editions |
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The Bell by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.83 — 480 ratings — published 1958 13 editions |
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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.73 — 468 ratings — published 1954 12 editions |
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The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.91 — 331 ratings — published 1973 13 editions |
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch, Peter Reed avg rating 4.05 — 234 ratings — published 1970 8 editions |
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The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.83 — 234 ratings — published 1993 10 editions |
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The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.81 — 214 ratings — published 1985 8 editions |
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The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.65 — 214 ratings — published 1977 5 editions |
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The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch avg rating 3.86 — 201 ratings — published 1968 10 editions |
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"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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"I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time."
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