Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch's A Word Child follows Hilary Burde, a self-loathing London clerk whose rigid weekly routine collapses when…

A philosopher's comic debut: Jake Donaghue, a drifting translator, is evicted and stumbles through London's rooms, rivers, and…

In Dublin before the Easter Rising, an Anglo-Irish family splinters along the fault lines of loyalty and rebellion.

A middle-aged schoolmaster's affair with a young artist unsettles his marriage and moral certainties in Iris Murdoch's 1957…

Edmund Narraway returns to his family home for his mother's funeral and finds the household crowded with unfinished…

Iris Murdoch's Bruno's Dream follows a dying old man whose obsessions with spiders and stamps frame his reckoning…

Iris Murdoch argues that morality lies in the quality of attention we pay to reality, not merely in…

Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose follows nine characters entangled in desire and self-deception after a family funeral.

Marian Taylor arrives at isolated Gaze Castle and becomes companion to the captive Hannah Crean-Smith in Murdoch's gothic…

Iris Murdoch's novel explores a therapist's double life, torn between his devoted wife and his mistress.

Iris Murdoch's first book is a pioneering 1953 English study of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist philosophy, tracing its structure…

Iris Murdoch's novel The Black Prince is a confession of love and art, told by an unreliable narrator.

A posthumous gathering of verse by philosopher-novelist Iris Murdoch, whose poetry remained a private, exploratory counterpart to her…

Annette Cockeyne escapes her finishing school and drifts into the orbit of the enigmatic Mischa Fox in post-war…

Dora Greenfield returns to her controlling husband at Imber Court, where a lay community and an enclosed abbey…