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Iris
the life of Iris Murdoch
By Conradi, Peter J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-875-9
- Publisher
- New York : Norton, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Conradi, the literary executor of Iris Murdoch's (1919-99) estate, presents a richly textured study of her personal, professional, academic, and literary life. A well-loved only child who dove headlong and with open heart into the excellent liberal education she was offered in adolescence and then at Oxford, Murdoch saw "philosophical problems [as] the problems of [her] own life" even as she worked through the Classics to Kant to the newborn ideas of Exist...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
