THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER ( SIGNED )
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford, where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net, and went on to write twenty-six novels, including the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978). Other literary awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) and Existentialists and Mystics (1997). She died in February 1999.
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- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001026
- Title
- THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER ( SIGNED )
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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