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Iris Murdoch

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

July 15, 1919

Died

February 08, 1999

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy

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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch

Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.

"She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means: by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her own original and created world--the world she must have glimpsed as she considered and planned her ...more

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Iris Murdoch’s books

Average rating: 3.85 · 103,296 ratings · 10,863 reviews · 142 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sea, the Sea 3.96 avg rating — 25,566 ratings — published 1978 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Net 3.78 avg rating — 16,386 ratings — published 1954 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bell by Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 10,464 ratings — published 1958 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Prince 3.96 avg rating — 6,954 ratings — published 1973 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Severed Head 3.75 avg rating — 6,795 ratings — published 1961 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unicorn 3.65 avg rating — 3,618 ratings — published 1963 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch, Peter Reed (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 2,602 ratings — published 1970 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nice and the Good 3.86 avg rating — 2,637 ratings — published 1968 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Italian Girl 3.43 avg rating — 2,636 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch, Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 2,187 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Iris Murdoch (?)

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

tags: love, realization

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“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: feminism, ireland, irish, women

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“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

tags: intimacy, solitude

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Polls

June 2021 New School Classic Group Read Poll

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 1926, 288 pages

64 votes, 26.6%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pages

39 votes, 16.2%

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938, 178 pages

36 votes, 14.9%

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 by Władysław Szpilman, 1946, 222 pages

30 votes, 12.4%

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, 1978, 495 pages

26 votes, 10.8%

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, 1992, 175 pages

23 votes, 9.5%

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, 1966, 152 pages

12 votes, 5.0%

Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945, 419 pages

11 votes, 4.6%

241 total votes

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