Iris Murdoch
Anglo-Irish philosopher and novelist whose dense, morally serious fiction explored the nature of good and evil, love, and freedom. She wrote twenty-six novels, including The Sea, The Sea, which won the Booker Prize. She is one of the most significant British novelists of the postwar era.
Works
- The Sea The SeaNovel about a retired actor obsessed with a woman from his past by the English coast
- The Black PrinceNovel about a literary critic's affair with a married woman told in nested narratives
- Under the NetNovel about a writer caught in a chaotic love triangle in post-war London
- A Severed HeadNovel about two couples whose intimate relationships become catastrophically entangled
- The BellNovel about monastic community disrupted by arrival of a mysterious sacred bell
- The Sea, The SeaNovel about a retired actor obsessed with a woman from his past by the English coast
- A Fairly Honourable DefeatNovel exploring how four people manipulate and betray each other seeking love