Under the Net

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 Reissue of Iris Murdoch's first novel, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan. Zusammenfassung Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Murdoch
• Assisted by: Kiernan Ryan (Introduction), Ryan Kiernan (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.01.2002
• EAN: 9780099429074
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942907-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Classic Iris Murdoch Series; VINTAGE CLASSICS; Vintage Classic Iris Murdoch Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)