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Iris Murdoch - A Writer at War: The Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch: 1939-1945
Peter Conradi
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Description for Iris Murdoch - A Writer at War: The Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch: 1939-1945
Hardcover. Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War. Num Pages: 303 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJH; BJ; DSK; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
These never-before published diaries and letters will be a MUST for every Iris Murdoch fan...These collected writings, never published before, comprise a diary which Iris Murdoch kept in her last summer at Oxford, immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, and her wartime correspondence with two men: the poet Frank Thomson, murdered in Bulgaria in 1944, and a teacher for the British Council, David Hicks. They reveal the young writer at her sprightly, original best - as gripped by her own affairs, and those of her friends and peers, as by the great affairs of the ... Read more
These never-before published diaries and letters will be a MUST for every Iris Murdoch fan...These collected writings, never published before, comprise a diary which Iris Murdoch kept in her last summer at Oxford, immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, and her wartime correspondence with two men: the poet Frank Thomson, murdered in Bulgaria in 1944, and a teacher for the British Council, David Hicks. They reveal the young writer at her sprightly, original best - as gripped by her own affairs, and those of her friends and peers, as by the great affairs of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Short Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906021221
SKU
V9781906021221
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99-1
About Peter Conradi
Peter J. Conradi is the author of Iris Murdoch: A Life, the critically lauded biography of Iris Murdoch. He has written a number of other non fiction books, including At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral (Seren 2009) and Going Buddhist, which was published by Short Books in 2004.
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