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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat Paperback - 2002

by Iris Murdoch

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IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St. Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in 1999.

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  • Title A Fairly Honourable Defeat
  • Author Iris Murdoch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Classics, London
  • Publication date 2002-06-25
  • ISBN 9780099285335 / 0099285339
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823

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   • "Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist." --Sunday Times


   • "The most important novelist writing in my time." --A. S. Byatt

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IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St. Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in 1999.

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