The Italian Girl
$34.71
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2001
Summary
A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare’s.
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother’s funeral, he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund – illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And at the heart of all, there is, as always, the family’s loyal servant, the Italian girl.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099285231 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 12000th |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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“Iris Murdoch
She was always in the front rank of unpredictable, original, serious writers exploring the deeper themes of ancient as well as contemporary experience * Guardian *
Iris Murdoch really knows how to write - she can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy – John Betjeman
I suspect that when the intellectual map of our own times comes to be sketched out, Iris Murdoch will occupy a position analogous to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky… Murdoch writes better than anyone about the condition of being love: both the ecstatic joys of it and its capacity to turn otherwise decent individuals into monsters of selfishness and cruelty… Her vision of the world is heart-rending, but ultimately celebratory – A.N. Wilson
About The Author
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
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