β Scribed by Iris Murdoch
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 286 pages
Published 1954
Vintage Classics (2002)
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1900-1998)
Time's List of the 100 Best Novels
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.
A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher.
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose βphilosophyβ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugoβs secret. Perhaps Hugoβs secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.
βIris Murdoch has imposed her alternative world on us as surely as Christopher Columbus or Graham Greene.β -- Sunday Times
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SUMMARY: Writer Jake Donaghue's adventures in London and Paris include falling in and out of love, kidnapping a canine film star, and trailing a onetime friend SUMMARY: Iris Murdoch'S First Novel Is A Gem - Solid And Sparkling. Set In A Part Of London, Where Struggling Writers Rub Shoulders Wi
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends
SUMMARY: Writer Jake Donaghue's adventures in London and Paris include falling in and out of love, kidnapping a canine film star, and trailing a onetime friend SUMMARY: Iris Murdoch'S First Novel Is A Gem - Solid And Sparkling. Set In A Part Of London, Where Struggling Writers Rub Shoulders Wi
Paperback, 252 pages Published 1954 Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1900-1998) A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend,
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