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A married schoolmaster and young painter must choose between love, duty and ambition - Murdoch at her very best. The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires and a different dream of life. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
'It's all dry sand running through the fingers.'
When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
'Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.'
Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement to writing a masterpiece. But the doorbell and the phone keep ringing, and every ring brings with it an ex-wife, a friend in need, a sister in trouble or a young woman seeking a teacher, and so dusty, selfish Bradley is plunged into the muddles and mysteries which will end in his doom.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite been said before' Sunday Telegraph The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values'...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1992 |
The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers. Iris Murdoch’s extraordinary exploration of human nature shines with intricate detail. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDE When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1999 |
Iris Murdoch really knows how to write, can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracy John Betjeman A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable - prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate. Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
Iris Murdoch's witty, atmospheric subversion of the Victorian Gothic novel
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALF
When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? And is her employer Hannah an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a lunatic, or a witch?
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare's
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And the heart of all, there is, as always, the family's loyal servant, the Italian girl.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
A vivid, dreamlike novel about a group of people in the power of a mysterious man
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others....
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
A darkly comic story of creativity, conscience, rebirth and love, which displays all of Murdoch's virtuoso imagination and narrative genius. In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2000 |
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. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Год | 2001 |
A complicated and comic story of dangerous love affairs
Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. How will he survive it?
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2001 |
In this haunting novel that 'troubles our sleep' (Richard Holloway) seven characters circle the enigmatic and callous figure of Carel, a 'priest of no God' Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, is co-guardian...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Год | 2002 |
Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption
Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job.
When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2002 |
Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on a series of fantastic and hilarious adventures around London involving movie stars, majestic philosophers, bookies, singers and a celebrity hound called the Marvellous Mister Mars.
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2002 |
A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long-resting ghosts of the past...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2003 |
Discover Murdoch’s wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old...
| Автор | Murdoch Iris |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |