The Nice And The Good (E-Book, EPUB)
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ISBN/EAN: 9781407019192
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 368 S., 0.46 MB
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08.03.2009
Format: EPUB
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A revolver shot rings through a Whitehall office one hot afternoon in the middle of an English summer. A Government official has apparently shot himself, but the circumstances are questionable prompting Octavian Gray, head of the department in which the dead man worked, to investigate.Lawyer John Ducane is charged with the task, interviewing other civil servants by day, and by night attempting repeatedly and unsuccessfully to break up with his mistress. When Ducane travels to Grays Dorset home everything becomes even more mysterious and nothing is quite as it seems.
Iris Murdochwas 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 Annes 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).
Iris Murdoch really knows how to write, can tell a story, delineate a character, catch an atmosphere with deadly accuracyJohn Betjeman
