Henry and Cato, The Collected Edition (The collected works of Iris Murdoch) - Hardcover

Murdoch, Iris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701134267 ISBN 13: 9780701134266

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1989

Synopsis

"Henry and Cato" is the story of two prodigal sons. It questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession. This is one of the Collected Editions of Iris Murdoch's work, published as a tribute on her 70th birthday.

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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: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0701134267
• ISBN 13: 9780701134266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340