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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
In this 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 can betray their loyalties.
The most important novelist writing in my time A. S. Byatt
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch is described as by A. S. Byatt as 'The most important novelist writing in my time'.
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.
A Fairly Honourable Defeat also receives critical acclaim:
'Murdoch's art was expansive, non-autobiographical and insistently inventive' - Daily Telegraph
'Above all, she was a consummate story-teller, prodigiously inventive and generous' - Independent
With an introduction by Garth Greenwell.
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Iris Murdoch is celebrated as an extraordinary novelist, with some considering her the most important of her time. Critics note her unusual distinction in the literary world and remark on the exceptional intellectual power evident in her novels.
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ISBN: 9780099285335
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 April 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 464
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About the Author
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. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992); other philosophical writings, including The Sovereignty of Good (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).
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