The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch - ISBN: 9780099429135
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Love, faith, and rebellion ignite Dublin on the eve of war.

The Red and the Green

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    5 April 2002

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Summary

Murdoch’s only historical novel, set in Ireland in 1916 on the eve of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin.

As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile Pat’s Protestant soldier cousin, Andrew Chase-White, puzzles out his complex emoti…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099429135
ISBN-10:0099429136
Author:Iris Murdoch
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:5 April 2002
Weight:236g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 20mm
Series:Vintage classics
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Critics Review

This is a comedy with that touch of ferocity about it which makes for excitement

Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable…behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist * Sunday Times *
This is a comedy with that touch of ferocity about it which makes for excitement – Elizabeth Jane Howard

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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