Henry And Cato - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140045694 ISBN 13: 9780140045697

Publisher: Penguin, 1977

Synopsis

Cato Forbes slips a revolver into the darkened Thames during the hours when Henry Marshalson is flying back to England to claim the family estate, now his because of his older brother's death

About this title

Review:

'...behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist’ -- Sunday Times

‘Miss Murdoch is blessedly clever without any of the aridity which, for some reason, that word is supposed to imply’ -- Philip Toynbee

About the Author:

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.

Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992); other philosophical writings, including The Sovereignty of Good (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0140045694
• ISBN 13: 9780140045697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400