A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2002
Summary
Everyone is thinking about Julius King.
For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda’s tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan’s abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He’s thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.
‘The most important novelist …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285335 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099285339 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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The most important novelist writing in my time * A.S. Byatt *A distinguished novelist of a very rare kind * Kingsley Amis *Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist * Sunday Times *
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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