The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head
$57.22
- Hardcover
680 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2016
Summary
Two novels demonstrating how this grande dame of English literature produced sophisticated philosophical fiction without compromising her belief that literature was to be ‘grasped by enjoyment’. Includes the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea. An excellent addition to Everyman’s growing number of Contemporary Classic omnibus editions.
First published in 1961, The Severed Head is regarded is one of Iris Murdoch’s most entertaining works. A dark and ferocious comic …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593708 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841593702 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 680 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 727g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 133mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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A formidable combination of intellectual drive and storytelling exuberance
A formidable combination of intellectual drive and storytelling exuberance – Harold BloomImmensely readable …Miss Murdoch is blessedly clever, without any of the aridity which, for some reason, that word is supposed to imply – Philip Toynbee (on A Severed Head)
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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