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  Under the Net

  by Iris Murdoch

  In Iris Murdoch's 1954 debut novel, Jake Donaghue is an engaging young writer. In his overintellectualized angst, Jake details a convoluted romantic impossibility--he loves Anna, who loves Hugo, who loves Sadie, who loves Jake. His betrayal of his best friend's trust, his emotional indifference in most of his relationships, and his failed first book eventually leave Jake in existential hell. Samuel West's... (more)
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  The Unicorn

  by Iris Murdoch

  Marian Taylor accepts a position as companion to Mrs. Hannah Crean-Smith, and gradually comes to the opinion that she is a prisoner of her husband.
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  The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)

  by Iris Murdoch

  In this riveting tale of love and intellectual intrigue, Murdoch gives us a seductive story with ever-mounting action, including suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. With an Introduction by Martha C. Nussbaum
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  The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books)

  by Iris Murdoch

  A writer of detective fiction who has not recovered from the loss of his wife becomes involved in the life of a neighbor's family.
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  The Green Knight

  by Iris Murdoch

  Exploring biblical and medieval themes in a contemporary London setting, the story of two brothers, a murder gone awry, and the outrageous demands of a stranger is filled with symbolism, humor, and suspense. Reprint. NYT.
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  The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

  by Iris Murdoch

  A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that... (more)
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  The Good Apprentice

  by Iris Murdoch

  "A brilliant entertainment." (Harold Bloom, The New York Times Book Review ) Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram.... (more)
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  The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

  by Iris Murdoch

  Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange... (more)
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  A Severed Head

  by Iris Murdoch

  Comic complications ensue when an intruder unleashes the primitive passions long subdued by London intellectuals who play at the conventions of love set by a society devoid of emotion.
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  Flight from the Enchanter

  by Iris Murdoch

  A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their god. But his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.