Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch

Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch
ISBN-10
039332401X
ISBN-13
9780393324013
Series
Iris
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
770
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Peter J. Conradi

Description

Traces the life and career of the philosopher and novelist, from her student days at Oxford, through her marriage to John Bayley, to Murdoch's influence on literary England, from 1940 to the present day.

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