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  <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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.

&quot;&lt;i&gt;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 she considered and planned her first steps in the art of fiction.&lt;/i&gt;&quot; (John Bayley in &lt;i&gt;Elegy for Iris&lt;/i&gt;, 1998)]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Dublin</hometown>  <born_at>07/15/1919</born_at>  <died_at>02/08/1999</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sea, The Sea]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>882</ratings_count>
  <published>1978</published>  
  
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        <book id="11253">
  <title><![CDATA[A Severed Head]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>509</ratings_count>
  <published>1961</published>  
  
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        <book id="11230">
  <title><![CDATA[The Bell]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>487</ratings_count>
  <published>1958</published>  
  
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        <book id="11324">
  <title><![CDATA[Under the Net]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.73</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>475</ratings_count>
  <published>1954</published>  
  
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        <book id="120182">
  <title><![CDATA[The Black Prince]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>335</ratings_count>
  <published>1973</published>  
  
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        <book id="11234">
  <title><![CDATA[A Fairly Honourable Defeat]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter Reed]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.06</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>237</ratings_count>
  <published>1970</published>  
  
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        <book id="12819">
  <title><![CDATA[The Green Knight]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>236</ratings_count>
  <published>1993</published>  
  
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        <book id="234069">
  <title><![CDATA[The Good Apprentice]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>219</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="11235">
  <title><![CDATA[The Unicorn]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>219</ratings_count>
  <published>1977</published>  
  
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        <book id="12066">
  <title><![CDATA[The Nice and the Good]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iris Murdoch]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>206</ratings_count>
  <published>1968</published>  
  
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