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Iris Murdoch: A Life. (Books: be brave).
Peter Conradi Iris Murdoch: A Life. W. W. Norton, 706 pages, $35
Iris Murdoch (1919-99) was--unlike most modern writers--intelligent, nice, and good. Her physical beauty seemed to reflect the inward beauty of her soul. In person, she was observant, responsive, and acute, as well as serene and the mistress of herself. She had a great deal of love to give and was loving to the world in general. Born in Dublin, she was educated by high-minded bohemians at Badminton School, near Bristol. The influential headmistress shared a bedroom in Iris's dormitory with another woman, but was also a "moral guide" who discouraged intimate friendships among her girls. Nonetheless, ...
- Peter J. Conradi. Iris Murdoch: a Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Henry, Richard April 1, 2003 700+ words
...0-393-04875-6 IRIS MURDOCH: A LIFE is the first...philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who passed away in...the age of eighty. Peter Conradi, who edited Murdoch...better have been titled Iris Murdoch: An Intellectual Life...
- Iris Murdoch: a Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Painter, Rebecca M. January 1, 2003 700+ words
By Peter Conradi. New York: W.W. Norton...individuals, male and female, Iris Murdoch poses quite a challenge...revelations emerging from Peter Conradi's recent biography...Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch (3rd ed., 2001...
- Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels: Thirty Years of Critical Reception.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Gasiorek, Andrzej January 1, 2004 700+ words
Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels: Thirty Years...55. ISBN: 1-57113-089-6. Iris Murdoch's novels have always defied classification...themselves. Barbara Stevens Heusel's Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels offers a summary...
- Iris Murdoch: A Life.
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Thompson, Betty March 27, 2002 700+ words
Iris Murdoch: A Life. By Peter J. Conradi. Norton, 706 pp., $35.00. WHEN IRIS MURDOCH died in 1999, Harold Bloom, custodian...words) of Alzheimer's disease. Peter Conradi dedicates his book to Bayley and to...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 3, 2001 700+ words
ANY biography of Iris Murdoch is likely to be a weighty affair...daunting project. Besides which, Peter Conradi is much in awe of his subject...would have cheered this book up. Iris Murdoch: A Life. By Peter J. Conradi...
- The social construction of homosexuality in Iris Murdoch's fiction.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Grimshaw, Tammy December 22, 2004 700+ words
In his recent biography of his Murdoch, Peter Conradi praises the novelist and philosopher for her "sympathetic and adventurous" treatment of homosexuality (424). A detailed reading...
- Conversations with Iris Murdoch.(From a Tiny Corner in the House of...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard December 1, 2003 700+ words
...just occupies a tiny corner of it," Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend. But what great things...many, I may have read more novels by Iris Murdoch than by any other twentieth-century...consists of twenty-three interviews with Iris Murdoch by sundry literary and media figures...
- A disappointing life of Iris Murdoch.(Reviews)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Wade, Stephen July 1, 2004 700+ words
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her. A. N. Wilson. Hutchinson...could have been 'explained' about Iris Murdoch without giving in to mere anecdote and...questions about the private lives of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley. But the worst flaw...
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