Which novel by Iris Murdoch won the 1978 Booker Prize?
"Good"" (1968), ""The Black Prince"" (1973), ""Henry and Cato"" (1976), ""The Sea, the Sea"" (1978, Booker Prize), ""The Philosopher's Pupil"" (1983), ""The Good Apprentice"" (1985), ""The Book and the Brotherhood"" (1987), ""The Message to the Planet"" (1989), and ""The Green Knight"" (1993). In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Murdoch was born in Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Irene Alice (née Richardson, 1899–1985) and Wills John Hughes Murdoch. Her father, a civil servant, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall, County Down. In 1915, he"
"Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish-born British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, ""Under the Net"", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include ""The Bell"" (1958), ""A Severed Head"" (1961), ""The Red and the Green"" (1965), ""The Nice and the"
"of Arts and Social Sciences Kingston University Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish-born British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, ""Under the Net"", was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include ""The Bell"" (1958), ""A Severed Head"" (1961), ""The Red and"
"recognition or sympathy; and though they are slow in developing, the conflicts are not absent. […] And as always with Iris Murdoch, the apparent moral simplicities prove ambiguous or uncertain."" Nuns and Soldiers Nuns and Soldiers is a 1980 novel by Iris Murdoch. The setting is England and two of the main characters are Gertrude, a widow, and Anne, an ex-nun. Guy Openshaw is 44 years old and on his death bed. Cancer is coming down hard on Guy, and he cannot stand the stream of visitors to his London flat. His wife Gertrude entertains the drop-ins, who were once"
"the United Kingdom in 1998, shortly before her death. The American edition, which was published in 1999, was called ""Elegy for Iris"". A sequel entitled ""Iris and the Friends"" was published in 1999, after her death. Murdoch was portrayed by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in Richard Eyre's film ""Iris"" (2001), based on Bayley's memories of his wife as she developed Alzheimer's disease. BBC Radio 4 broadcast in 2015 an ""Iris Murdoch season"" with several memoirs by people who knew her, and dramatizations of her novels. Novels Short Stories Philosophy Plays Poetry collections Source: Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies, Faculty"
"was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize. The Nice and the Good The Nice and the Good is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1968, it was her eleventh novel. ""The Nice and the Good"" was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize. The novel combines elements of the thriller and romantic comedy genres. It begins with the suicide of Joseph Radeechy, a civil servant, in his London office. His department head, Octavian Gray, asks John Ducane, the department's legal advisor, to investigate. Ducane soon discovers that Radeechy was a practitioner of black magic and that he was being blackmailed."
"Nuns and Soldiers Nuns and Soldiers is a 1980 novel by Iris Murdoch. The setting is England and two of the main characters are Gertrude, a widow, and Anne, an ex-nun. Guy Openshaw is 44 years old and on his death bed. Cancer is coming down hard on Guy, and he cannot stand the stream of visitors to his London flat. His wife Gertrude entertains the drop-ins, who were once part of a lively set that came by after work hours for a drink and chat. The visitors all relied on Guy for advice and money, and as he dies"
"struggles with hopelessness and frustration, and becomes her caretaker, as his wife's mind deteriorates from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. ""Iris"" received positive reviews from critics, with a 79% ""fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes from a sample of 109 critics. Iris (2001 film) Iris is a 2001 British-American biographical drama film that tells the story of Irish-born British novelist Dame Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. The film contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch (Kate Winslet) was an outgoing, dominant individual as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley (Hugh Bonneville), and their later life,"
"Her last novel, ""Jackson's Dilemma"", was published in 1995. Iris Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1997 and died in 1999 in Oxford. There is a bench dedicated to her in the grounds of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she used to enjoy walking. For some time, Murdoch's influence and achievements as a philosopher were eclipsed by her success as a novelist, but recent appraisals have increasingly accorded her a substantial role in postwar Anglo-American philosophy, particularly for her unfashionably prescient work in moral philosophy and her reinterpretation of Aristotle and Plato. Martha Nussbaum has argued for Murdoch's ""transformative"
"major character in the novel is introduced. ""The Book and the Brotherhood"" was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize. The Book and the Brotherhood The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a theoretical work on Marxism, supposed to have been written by David Crimond, an exile from this circle of friends. After graduating from Oxford University, the protagonists banded together"
"infidelity, especially with one lover in particular. He tolerated it throughout their marriage. Elegy for Iris Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley, about his marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years. Bayley also wrote two more books about his life with Murdoch, ""Iris and Her Friends"" and ""Widower's House"". In 2001, the film ""Iris"" was based on Bayley's book. Part of the movie and the book on the life of Iris Murdoch both dealt with her view of marriage, in which she felt it was acceptable for her"
"Evil"". She sees the structure of the novel, with its loose narration interspersed with letter sections, as both a major departure for Murdoch and evidence of her ""genuine narrative skills"". An Accidental Man An Accidental Man is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1971, it was her fourteenth novel. The complex story is set in London and involves a large number of characters, many of whom are related to each other by family or marriage. The ""accidental man"" is the hapless but charming Austin Gibson Grey, whose actions drive much of the plot. His long-estranged wealthy older brother, recently"
"to study the effects of Alzheimer's on spontaneous writing, and hoped that their research could help to develop better diagnostic tests, capable of picking up on these subtle changes in cognitive ability. Jackson's Dilemma Jackson's Dilemma is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1995. It was Murdoch's last novel; she died four years later, on 8 February 1999. In her final years, Murdoch suffered from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, one of the symptoms of which is a reduced vocabulary and decreased word fluency. Researchers at University College London found in 2004 that the language used in ""Jackson's"
"Elegy for Iris Elegy for Iris is a 1999 memoir by John Bayley, about his marriage to fellow author Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her last years. Bayley also wrote two more books about his life with Murdoch, ""Iris and Her Friends"" and ""Widower's House"". In 2001, the film ""Iris"" was based on Bayley's book. Part of the movie and the book on the life of Iris Murdoch both dealt with her view of marriage, in which she felt it was acceptable for her to engage in adultery. Her husband, John Bayley, knew about her acts of"
"Iris (2001 film) Iris is a 2001 British-American biographical drama film that tells the story of Irish-born British novelist Dame Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. The film contrasts the start of their relationship, when Murdoch (Kate Winslet) was an outgoing, dominant individual as compared to her timid and scholarly partner Bayley (Hugh Bonneville), and their later life, when Murdoch (Judi Dench) was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and tended to by a frustrated Bayley (Jim Broadbent) in their North Oxford home in Charlbury Road. The film, directed by Richard Eyre, is based on Bayley's memoir ""Elegy for Iris""."
"influences are seen in Bradley's quest for a pseudo-Platonic perfection in his writing and his purported Asceticism. ""The Black Prince"" was awarded the 1973 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It was shortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize. The Black Prince (novel) The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch's 15th novel, first published in 1973. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet. ""The Black Prince"" is remarkable for the structure of its narrative, consisting of a central story bookended by forewords and post-scripts by characters within it. It largely consists of the description of a period in the"
"circumstances that threaten the stability of a circle of friends in a London community. The Green Knight (novel) The Green Knight is the 25th novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, first published in 1993. The lives of Louise Anderson and her daughters Aleph, Sefton and Moy become intertwined with a mystical character whose destiny both affects and informs the novel's central conflicts which include a murder that never actually occurs, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and one extremely sentient dog who dearly misses his owner. This novel loosely parodies the medieval poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;"""
"critic Harold Bloom listed ""Bruno's Dream"" in his ""The Western Canon"" (1994) as one of the books in his conception of artistic works that have been important and influential in Western culture. The writer A. N. Wilson described ""Bruno's Dream"" as one of the most ""distinctive and successful"" novels Murdoch wrote in the 1960s. Bruno's Dream Bruno's Dream is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1969, it was her twelfth novel. Set in London, the novel tells the story of a dying man called Bruno and his family. Narrated in the third person that allows for multiple character perspectives"
"1978 and 1980. He directed ""The Ploughman's Lunch"" (written by Ian McEwan) in 1983, which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film, ""Iris"", a biographical film of writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and ""Stage Beauty"". Broadbent won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Iris"", and Dench and Winslet were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. He returned to the BBC in 1988 to direct the Falklands War story ""Tumbledown"" (starring Colin Firth), which won him the BAFTA Award for Best Director and the"
"The Sacred and Profane Love Machine The Sacred and Profane Love Machine is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1974, it was her sixteenth novel. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1974. Blaise Gavender is a psychotherapist with a wife and a sixteen-year-old son, living near London in a comfortable home called Hood House. Unknown to his wife Harriet, he has been having an affair with another woman, Emily McHugh, for nine years, and Blaise and Emily have an eight-year-old son named Luca. For years he has been putting off telling Harriet about Emily, but finally is forced"
"variety in her achievement, and the richly layered structure and compelling realistic comic imagination of ""The Black Prince"" (1973) is very different from the early comic work ""Under the Net"" (1954) or ""The Unicorn"" (1963). ""The Unicorn"" can be read as a sophisticated Gothic romance, or as a novel with Gothic trappings, or perhaps as a parody of the Gothic mode of writing. ""The Black Prince"", for which Murdoch won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a study of erotic obsession, and the text becomes more complicated, suggesting multiple interpretations, when subordinate characters contradict the narrator and the mysterious"
"The Bell (novel) The Bell is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1958, it was her fourth novel. It is set in a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire. The setting is Imber Court, a country house in Gloucestershire that is the home of a small Anglican lay religious community. It is situated next to Imber Abbey, a convent belonging to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. The owner of Imber Court and the community's de facto leader is Michael Meade, a former schoolmaster in his late 30s. The community supports"
"suggested that Murdoch relied too much on such characters as spokesmen for her own ideas. On the contrary, Ramanathan argues that Brendan's character is the ""deep structure on which the novel rests"". His role is not just to give spiritual counsel and advice which Cato is unable to take, but by his own behaviour as a priest to provide a contrast with the ego-driven actions of Cato. Henry and Cato Henry and Cato is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1976, it was her eighteenth novel. Set in London and the English countryside, the plot centres on two childhood"
"Jackson's Dilemma Jackson's Dilemma is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1995. It was Murdoch's last novel; she died four years later, on 8 February 1999. In her final years, Murdoch suffered from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, one of the symptoms of which is a reduced vocabulary and decreased word fluency. Researchers at University College London found in 2004 that the language used in ""Jackson's Dilemma"" is noticeably simpler than in her earlier works. They suggested that the novel - written in longhand, with few revisions and little room for editorial interference - offers a ""unique opportunity"""
"The Nice and the Good The Nice and the Good is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1968, it was her eleventh novel. ""The Nice and the Good"" was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize. The novel combines elements of the thriller and romantic comedy genres. It begins with the suicide of Joseph Radeechy, a civil servant, in his London office. His department head, Octavian Gray, asks John Ducane, the department's legal advisor, to investigate. Ducane soon discovers that Radeechy was a practitioner of black magic and that he was being blackmailed. His investigations threaten to implicate Richard Biranne,"
"unbelievable as human beings"". Murdoch's biographer Peter J. Conradi notes that the Irish reviews were ""generally good"", including one by Seán Ó Faoláin in the ""Irish Times"". Benedict Kiely recommended it to American readers as a guidebook to ""the English and the Irish"" characters and praised Murdoch's ability to discriminate, ""with scholastic precision ... between English rain and Irish rain"". The Red and the Green The Red and the Green is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1965, it was her ninth novel. It is set in Dublin during the week leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916,"
"The Green Knight (novel) The Green Knight is the 25th novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, first published in 1993. The lives of Louise Anderson and her daughters Aleph, Sefton and Moy become intertwined with a mystical character whose destiny both affects and informs the novel's central conflicts which include a murder that never actually occurs, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and one extremely sentient dog who dearly misses his owner. This novel loosely parodies the medieval poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;"" however, it is largely a comedy of errors with bizarre twists and turns in"
"The Unicorn (novel) The Unicorn is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1963, it was her seventh novel. ""The Unicorn"" is set in a remote area on the west coast of Ireland. The book begins with the arrival of Marian Taylor, a young English school teacher who has accepted a position as governess at an isolated country house called Gaze Castle. She is surprised to learn that there are no children at Gaze, and that she will be teaching French and Italian to the lady of the house, Hannah Crean-Smith. Part 1 describes Marian's growing awareness of the situation"
"favourable reception was due to Iris Murdoch's ""annual novel"" having attained the status of ""venerable British institution"". Elizabeth Janeway, in ""The New York Times"", called it Murdoch's ""best, most exciting, and most successful book"" and found it ""hard to imagine anyone not enjoying it"". However, she expressed reservations about the amount of philosophical discussion and thinking, which she found ""not very interesting"". On the other hand, A.S. Byatt praised Murdoch's ""gift for analysing conscious thought in her characters as well as unconscious impulses and emotional states"". Later writers have dealt with the ideas discussed in ""The Nice and the Good"","
"The Book and the Brotherhood The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a theoretical work on Marxism, supposed to have been written by David Crimond, an exile from this circle of friends. After graduating from Oxford University, the protagonists banded together to finance Crimond in writing the book. He never produced it, yet out of a sense of duty this"
"affair comes to a head after two years when she is disgraced publicly and falls unexpectedly in love with Stuart. Left with a difficult decision, Midge turns to Edward for support. ""The Good Apprentice"" was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize. The critic Harold Bloom listed ""The Good Apprentice"" in his ""The Western Canon"" (1994) as one of the books in his conception of artistic works that have been important and influential in Western culture. The Good Apprentice The Good Apprentice is the 22nd novel by Iris Murdoch, first published in 1985. Edward Baltram, a college student living in London,"
"Henry and Cato Henry and Cato is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1976, it was her eighteenth novel. Set in London and the English countryside, the plot centres on two childhood friends who have not seen each other for several years. Henry is an art historian who returns to England from the United States upon inheriting his family estate, and Cato is a Roman Catholic priest who is losing his faith and has secretly fallen in love with a seventeen-year-old boy . Their stories, separate at the beginning of the novel, converge as it progresses. The complex story"
"The Red and the Green The Red and the Green is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1965, it was her ninth novel. It is set in Dublin during the week leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916, and is her only historical novel. Its characters are members of a complexly inter-related Anglo-Irish family who differ in their religious affiliations and in their views on the relations between England and Ireland. The novel combines a thoroughly researched account of the events leading up to the Easter Rising with a complicated sexual farce. It received mixed reviews on its"