The Flight from the Enchanter - Hardcover
The story of a group of people whose lives revolve around the mysterious figure of Mischa Fox; a frightening, yet touching, figure of power and obsession.
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Review:
"A spirited fantasia in several keys...brilliant, witty and original" (Sunday Times)
"Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit" (Spectator)
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"Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit" (Spectator)
'Brilliant, witty and original' Sunday Times
'Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit' Cyril Connolly
'Miss Murdoch's prose has music even as it has intelligence and wit' Cyril Connolly
The story of a group of people who love and fear the magician who affects all their lives: the ravishing and eccentric young Annette who, after swinging on a chandilier, runs away from her finishing school to enter the School of Life, and learns a good deal more than she bargained for: the fierce and melancholy Rosa, the mistress of two Polish brothers: her brother, editor of a down-at-heel magazine: the scholar, Peter Saward, obsessed by an indecipherale ancient script: Rainborough, a civil servant, struggling in the toils of his secretary. Their lives revolve around the mysterious figure of Mischa Fox, a frightening, yet also touching, figure of power. Each is posessed by some person, idea, illusion or object. Each tries to break the spell, to flee the enchanter.
The story moves through a series of episodes which are as vivid and paradoxical as dreams, where the normal suddenly deviates into the sinister, the beautiful into the grotesque.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1955
- ISBN 10 0701109769
- ISBN 13 9780701109769
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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