This new volume in the 'Author Chronologies' series focuses on Iris Murdoch, detailing the stages of the composition of all of the novels as well as suggesting both Murdoch's contemporary intellectual and literary pursuits and the complex relationships which made up her life as she wrote. Featuring
An Iris Murdoch Chronology
โ Scribed by Valerie Purton (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 276
- Series
- Author Chronologies
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
An Iris Murdoch Chronology....Pages 1-218
Whoโs Who....Pages 219-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-256
โฆ Subjects
Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature
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