• Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known...
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  • Iris is a 2001 biographical drama film about novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with her husband John Bayley. Directed by Richard Eyre from a screenplay...
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  • 1974 to 1992. His first marriage was to the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch. Bayley was "acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well...
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  • The Sea, the Sea (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    The Sea, The Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won the 1978 Booker Prize. The Sea, The Sea is a tale of...
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  • The Bell is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1958, it was her fourth novel. It is set in a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed community...
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    studies of Dame Iris Murdoch (who was a friend and mentor), Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (1965) and Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study...
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  • scene Iris (1916 film), a British silent romance Iris (1987 film), a Dutch film directed by Mady Saks Iris (2001 film), a biopic about Iris Murdoch Iris (2014...
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    sexually repressed laundress in Quills (2000), and the novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001). For the last of these, she received her third Academy Award...
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  • Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley. In it, he recounts his forty-two year marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch and her struggles with Alzheimer's...
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  • The Sovereignty of Good (category Works by Iris Murdoch)
    by Iris Murdoch. First published in 1970, it comprises three previously published papers, all of which were originally delivered as lectures. Murdoch argued...
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  • Calgary, Alberta, Canada Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher James Murdoch – several people including James Murdoch (born 1972), British-American...
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    in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Rose Dewitt Bukater in Titanic, Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001), the free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine...
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  • nominations Margaret Atwood Beryl Bainbridge J. M. Coetzee Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch 5 nominations Sebastian Barry Peter Carey Kazuo Ishiguro David Mitchell...
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  • and academic, best known for his studies of writer and philosopher, Iris Murdoch, who was a close friend. He is a Professor Emeritus of English at the...
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  • Under the Net (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    Under the Net is a 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch. It was Murdoch's first published novel. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake...
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  • The Black Prince (novel) (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch's 15th novel, first published in 1973. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet. The Black Prince is remarkable...
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    the story in contrasting styles. In her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch uses the Andromeda myth, as presented in a reproduction of Titian's painting...
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  • (1905–1982), Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001), Mary Midgley (1919–2018)...
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  • A Severed Head (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    Severed Head is a satirical, sometimes farcical 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch. It was Murdoch's fifth published novel. Primary themes include marriage, adultery...
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    Anna Maria dePeyster DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch and Mann; born 30 June 1944) is a British and Australian journalist and novelist. Anna Maria Torv...
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  • The Good Apprentice (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    The Good Apprentice is the 22nd novel by Iris Murdoch, first published in 1985. Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend...
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  • Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant The Bell by Iris Murdoch Beowulf: A Glossed Text Beowulf: A Prose Translation Beowulf: A Verse...
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    Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers). Also Edith Stein and Iris Murdoch used the dialogue form. Stein imagined a dialogue between Edmund Husserl...
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  • The Unicorn (novel) (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    The Unicorn is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1963, it was her seventh novel. The Unicorn is set in a remote area on the west coast of Ireland....
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    journalist Iris Mountbatten (1920–1982), English actress and model, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), British novelist Iris Nampeyo...
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  • Attenborough, and Ian Holm. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Iris Murdoch. The highly unique credits features accurate dolls of each cast member...
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    Roth and to "British writers of a certain age", such as Anita Brookner, Iris Murdoch, and Barbara Pym. Of Pym and Brookner, she says, "there is a suspicion...
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  • The Book and the Brotherhood (category Novels by Iris Murdoch)
    The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, it is...
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  • (England) – the most famous 'angry young man' novel Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (England) Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (France) Genre fiction...
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  • some enthusiastic early reviews from supporters such as W. H. Auden, Iris Murdoch, and C. S. Lewis, literary hostility to Tolkien quickly became acute...
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