Iris Murdoch Chronology

Zusatztext 'This title would be a useful addition to any university library supporting courses in contemporary fiction! women's writing and philosophy. The popular appeal of Murdoch's writing may also make this title of interest to public libraries.' - Linda Kemp! Reference Reviews Informationen zum Autor VALERIE PURTON is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of A Coleridge Chronology (1993) and (with Christopher Sturman) of Poems by Two Brothers (1993). She has also edited Dickens's Dombey and Son (1996) and Landscape and Friendship (2000). Klappentext Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer. Zusammenfassung Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs! her war-work with UNRRA! her move from early communism to Thatcherism! her later life as a secular saint! her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Preface Introduction Chronology Who's Who Bibliography Index

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'This title would be a useful addition to any university library supporting courses in contemporary fiction, women's writing and philosophy. The popular appeal of Murdoch's writing may also make this title of interest to public libraries.' - Linda Kemp, Reference Reviews

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• Authors: V Purton, V. Purton, Valerie Purton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2007
• EAN: 9781403945587
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4558-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Author Chronologies Series; Author Chronologies; Author Chronologies Series; Author Chronologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection