- A Fairly Honourable Defeat is a novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. Published in 1970, it was her thirteenth novel. Plot summary.
- I don’t think anyone who has read Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) all the way through can be neutral about it.
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- 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...
- Melodramatic incidents, purloined letters, apparently unmotivated actions -- in spite of everything Iris Murdoch has not lost her intelligence as a writer.
- In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian...
- In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian...
- In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian...
- "One of Iris Murdoch’s more successful novels, A Fairly Honourable Defeat combines elements of realism and allegory to create a commentary on the moral...
- Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris] Language: eng Format: epub, mobi Publisher: Penguin Classic Published: 2003-04-29T07:00:00+00:00.
- I loved ‘A Fairly Honourable Defeat’ and found it the most consistently funny of her novels so far.
- Anyway set in London, A Fairly Honourable Defeat features a sizable cast of self-satisfied characters whose comfortable domestic lives are disturbed by the...
- Love and the search for self-identity are twin themes in many of Murdoch’s novels, including A Fairly Honourable Defeat.
- In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian...