The Nice and the Good

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The resonant sub plot involves murder and black magic in Whitehall, as the novel leads us through stress and terror to a profoundly joyous conclusion. Zusammenfassung A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The resonant sub plot involves murder and black magic in Whitehall, as the novel leads us through stress and terror to a profoundly joyous conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Murdoch
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780099285267
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928526-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / General, Dorset, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century