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Opening with a suicide at a government office, The Nice and the Good plunges the reader into a novel that explores the many aspects of love including obsession, disinterest and the secrets that individuals keep from one another. The novel revolves around the entanglements, secrets and relationships of one extended household. John Ducane, who has been given the task of investigating Radeechy's suicide, is involved with two women. One is a...

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Iris Murdoch Biographies (6)

Iris Murdoch

507 words, approx. 2 pages

The works of the novelist and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) portray characters whose warped and often dreamlike perceptions of reality create suffering among those whose lives they attempt... Read more

Iris Murdoch

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Biography EssayOne of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Ker... Read more

(Jean) Iris Murdoch

11,016 words, approx. 37 pages

One of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Kermode, thinks hi... Read more

(Jean) Iris Murdoch

16,200 words, approx. 55 pages

One of the prominent writers of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch has published twenty-six novels, five philosophical books, five plays, a book of poetry, and most recently two edited volumes o... Read more

(Jean) Iris Murdoch

2,838 words, approx. 10 pages

Iris Murdoch is far more well known as a novelist, philosopher, and literary critic than as a playwright; her reputation and significance in twentieth-century literature rests largely on her twenty-si... Read more

(Jean) Iris Murdoch

2,859 words, approx. 10 pages

Iris Murdoch's achievements in philosophy have often been overshadowed by her reputation as a novelist and dramatist. In fact, however, Murdoch's philosophical and literary work are closely interrelat... Read more

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