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Beschreibung

Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls.

It offers a sanctuary for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of the community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in the midst of all this, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface.

'She's writing about the only things that matter - love, goodness and how to be happy'
Independent

'A book that everyone who's ever been tempted to throw in the towel and become a hermit should read'
Guardian


WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY

Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls.

It offers a sanctuary for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of the community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in the midst of all this, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface.

'She's writing about the only things that matter - love, goodness and how to be happy'
Independent

'A book that everyone who's ever been tempted to throw in the towel and become a hermit should read'
Guardian


WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY

Über den Autor

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. After working in the Treasury and in the UN, she discovered philosophy, eventually becoming Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her philosophical concerns are at the heart of the 25 novels for which she became famous, gaining the Whitbread Prize for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She wrote poetry all her life.

Rachel Hirschler is the lead transcriber with the Iris Murdoch Collections at Kingston University Archives. Miles Leeson, Anne Rowe and Frances White are leading academics and editors who have published widely on Iris Murdoch's life, philosophy and novels. Together they administer and contribute to the work of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre, the Iris Murdoch Society and the Iris Murdoch Review.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Vintage Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780099470489
ISBN-10: 0099470489
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 601144
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Murdoch, Iris
Auflage: New edition
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 199 x 131 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Iris Murdoch
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2004
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 102403899