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The Flight from the Enchanter
de Murdoch, Iris
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- First
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 316pp. Octavo in original brown cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Cloth, dust jacket and text block are all in amazing condition adding to scarcity of this title. Some faint offsetting to halftitle from something previously stored in book (likely a newspaper clipping) Iris Murdoch's 2nd book (only preceded by Under the Net, 1954) 1956
Sinopsis
IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford, where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net, and went on to write twenty-six novels, including the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978). Other literary awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) and Existentialists and Mystics (1997). She died in February 1999.
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- Aquila Books
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- Título
- The Flight from the Enchanter
- Autor
- Murdoch, Iris
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Chatto & Windus
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1956
- Palabras clave
- First Edition
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