The Flight From the Enchanter - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099283697 ISBN 13: 9780099283690

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.

About this title

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)

From the Publisher:

'Brilliant, witty and original' Sunday Times
'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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099283697
• ISBN 13: 9780099283690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304