Iris Murdoch művei

A jó uralma

"[A] z emberi viselkedést igen jelentős részben egocentrikus mechanikus energia mozgatja. Az erkölcsi életben az ellenség a kövér, kérlel...

The Bell

Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of...

The Unicorn

When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a numb...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

A word child

The Time of the Angels

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

A World Child

The bell

Nuns and soldiers

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of...

Les Cloches

The Time of the Angels

An accidental man

Bruno's Dream

Bruno is nearly ninety. Obsessed with his past and a passion for spiders, he is the centre of a complex web of relationships involving hi...

The philosopher's Pupid

The Message to the Planet

Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, explores the meaning of life in a story of love and betrayal, faith and ...

The Good Apprentice

Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced ...

A Severed Head

As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest...

The Flight From The Enchanter

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Ros...

An Unofficial Rose

After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for...

The Italian Girl

A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning auth...

The Black Prince

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hop...

Existentialists and Mystics

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetic...

The Flight from the Enchanter

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Ros...

The Bell

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being ...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate throu...

Under the Net

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, ...

The Flight from the Enchanter

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

The Philosopher's Pupil

When George McCaffrey’s car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame. Nobody, that is, ex...

The Sandcastle

The Nice and the Good

Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to ...

Henry and Cato

This is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a self-imposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and lan...

Under the Net

A Severed Head

The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow

The Green Knight

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary...

Under the net

Jackson's Dilemma

Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under wa...

Die Souveränität des Guten

In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Un...

The sea, the sea

The Unicorn

When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confro...

Nuns and Soldiers

Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the rece...

A Severed Head

The Black Prince

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hop...

THE BLACK PRINCE

Former tax inspector Bradley Pearson is a writer who has published nothing - his precept is perfect; his maxim is to wait - unlike his be...

The Book and the Brotherhood

The Red and the Green

As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private...

The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head

Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life...

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