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 · A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch. Penguin, Mar 1, - Fiction - pages. 7 Reviews. An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker 4/5(7).  · The novel that finally won Iris Murdoch the Booker Prize, The Sea, The Sea is the story of Charles Arrowby, who has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs. Iris Murdoch () wore two hats: she was an Oxford don who taught philosophy writing on that recondite subject as well as winning plaudits and fame as a bestselling novelist. "A Fairly Honorable Defeat", while not one of her best known novels, still provides a rich reading www.doorway.ru by:

A Fairly Honourable Defeat.: Iris Murdoch. Random House, - Fiction - pages. 7 Reviews. 'I feel there are demons around.'. 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. About A Fairly Honourable Defeat. An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings. A Fairly Honourable Defeat Researching Iris Murdoch in a Time of Pandemic 26 April By Maria Peacock Blog. Now libraries and archive collections are re-opening, and I am delighted that restrictions on travel have been lifted, so that I can make an appointment at the Iris Murdoch Special Collections at Kingston University, to continue my.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat First British edition cover AuthorIris Murdoch Cover artistJohn Sergeant CountryUnited Kingdom LanguageEnglish PublisherChatto Windus Publication date Media typePrint Pages pp ISBN OCLC A Fairly Honourable Defeat is a novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. Published in , it was her thirteenth novel. February 8, A Fairly Honourable Defeat. By RUBIN RABINOVITZ. A FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT. By Iris Murdoch. t the climax of this, Iris Murdoch's 13th novel, Hilda Foster, alone in an isolated. A Fairly Honourable Defeat. Iris Murdoch. Penguin, Mar 1, - Fiction - pages. 7 Reviews. An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker.