Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995

‘Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real’This selection of Iris Murdoch’s most interesting and important letters gives us a living portrait of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and thinkers. Here for the first time is Murdoch in her own words, from her schoolgirl days to her last years.The letters show a great mind at work – we watch the young Murdoch struggling with philosophical issues, often unsure of herself; witness her anguish when a novel won’t come together; observe her involved in world events and exploring sensuality. They are full of sharp humour and irreverence. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable. Gradually, we see how this fed into her novels’ plots and characters, despite her claims that her fiction was not drawn from reality.Quite apart from giving these valuable insights, her letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person. They make for an extraordinary and intimate reading experience: she is wonderful company.

Biographies & Memoirs

Horner, Avril

Rowe, Anne

MURDOCH, Iris.

Professionals & Academics

Vintage Books

Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.

Iris Murdoch and Morality

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Telling of the Egyptian sun-god Ra, this is one of a series of timeless stories from cultures around the world. The series is designed to meet the requirement of Key Stage 2 that children's reading should include myths and legends.

The Secret Name of Ra (Myths and Legends)

Reference

HEINEMANN LIBRARY+

Excellent condition no highlighter or markings!!!!! Ships the day of purchase!!!!!!!

A war Christmas (History stories)

Children's Books

Rigby Education

Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public intellectual. This thematically based study outlines the overarching themes that characterise her fiction decade by decade, explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist, explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction. While Iris Murdoch is acknowledged here as a writer who vividly evokes the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, she is also presented as a figure whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender and psychology has immense resonance for twenty-first-century readers.

Iris Murdoch (Writers and Their Work)

Arts & Literature

Liverpool University Press

This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Martin, P.

Isis, the goddess of the dead, tricks Ra, the god of creation, into revealing his secret name so that she and her husband Osiris can become rulers of the earth.

Rigby Interactive Library

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Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995

Iris Murdoch and Morality

The Secret Name of Ra (Myths and Legends)

A war Christmas (History stories)

Iris Murdoch (Writers and Their Work)

Iris Murdoch and Morality

Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

The Secret Name of Ra (Myths and Legends)

Iris Murdoch (Writers and Their Work)