The Nice and the Good
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2001
Summary
A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable - prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate.
Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly - and unsuccessfully - to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to G…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099285267 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099285266 |
| Author: | Iris Murdoch |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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“A masterpiece by reason of its profound moral vitality.” –Country Life
Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour * The Times *
Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century * Guardian *
Irish Murdoch’s most versitile novel, and chief among them is the pleasure which the authors take in her characters * Country Life *
Just as Jane Austen defines moral categories like “sense” and “sensibility” in her novels, so Iris Murdoch creates new constellations of meaning around those stand-bys of ordinary language, the nice and the good * Atlantic *
About The Author
Iris Murdoch
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 studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.
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