Product details
ISBN
9780099283690
Published
2000-03-16
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Weight
217 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304
Author
Biographical note
Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.A spirited fantasia in several keys...brilliant, witty and original
Sunday Times
Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit
Spectator
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.
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Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.
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A vivid, dreamlike novel about a group of people in the power of a mysterious man
Product details
ISBN
9780099283690
Published
2000-03-16
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Weight
217 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
18 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
304
Author