THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET
by IRIS MURDOCH
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394221311
- ISBN 13
- 9780394221311
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a first edition of The Message to the Planet, by the British writer Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). It was her 24th novel and was published in 1989.
From the publisher:
For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Ludens' friends are more skeptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-priest, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, a poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found. He is a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge. Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens? Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness? Iris Murdoch's endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1444
- Title
- THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET
- Author
- IRIS MURDOCH
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394221311
- ISBN 13
- 9780394221311
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 563
- Keywords
- Holocaust, Meaning of Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Religion; British Fiction;
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Louise Aird
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- First Edition
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