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The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch | |
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About 222 pages (66,575 words) in 11 products |
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Iris Murdoch | | Birth Date: |
July 15, 1919 | | Death Date: |
February 8, 1999 | | Place of Birth: |
Dublin, Ireland | | Place of Death: |
Oxford, England | | Nationality: |
Irish | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Iris Murdoch
532 words, approx. 1.8 pages
 The works of the novelist and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) portray characters whose warped and often dreamlike perceptions of reality create suffering among those whose lives they attempt to dominate. Jean Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ir... summary from source:
 Biography of (Jean) Iris Murdoch
16255 words, approx. 54.2 pages
 One of the prominent writers of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch has published twenty-six novels, five philosophical books, five plays, a book of poetry, and most recently two edited volumes of previously uncollected work--another book of poetry... summary from source:
Biography of Iris Murdoch
11311 words, approx. 37.7 pages
One of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Kermode, thinks highly of her work, while another, Christopher Ricks, ha...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Washington Post To the Sea, To the Sea
05/28/1999: 1,063 words, approx. 4 pages SCIENTISTS, and science fiction writers, have been telling us for years that the future of our food supply lay under water. But we still tend to think of "seafood" only as including the most familiar fish and shellfish, leaving aside a huge number of... summary from source:
The Spectator The sea, the sea
07/31/2004: 728 words, approx. 2 pages Exhibitions The sea, the sea Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy Bowes Museum, until 30 August 'A very impressive pile of stones,' is how the driver of my taxi from Darlington Station described the Bowes Museum outside Barnard...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Francis King
518 words, approx. 2 pages
Magic and the supernatural run, two lurid threads, throughout a loosely woven book [The Sea, The Sea]. Miss Murdoch has always presented love as though it were some kind of spell unaccountable in its mysterious waxing and waning…. Her people are infected with love or infect others in the same way that colds are caught and given…. By one of those coincidences more common in novels than real life, Charles finds that living in the same village is the girl, Hartley, whom he loved in his adolescenc... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Malcolm Bradbury
371 words, approx. 1 pages
The Sea, The Sea is clearly one of [Miss Murdoch's] 'mature' books—one of her longest, her richest, her most carefully paced. Love, again, is the kingdom in which everything occurs; it is past love projected and repeated in a mysterious and thoughtful present. This is one of her more magical novels, set in an economical landscape and seascape: somewhere in the north, in and around a gaunt Edwardian house, with a view across the sea, that 'image of an inaccessible freedom&#... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Gabriele Annan
249 words, approx. 1 pages
Like most of Iris Murdoch's novels, [The Sea, The Sea] is a thriller and whodunit on two levels: factual and philosophical. It is not too difficult to do an exegesis of the philosophical content because she leaves so many clues around, not to speak of overt explanations in dialogues and interior monologues. But that does not make it any less exciting. It is action-packed, and the action is handled with her usual virtuosity: there seems to be nothing she cannot get her words round, and she treats the ...
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