The Flight From The Enchanter

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019130

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The Flight From the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and melacholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453200971

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The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch Pdf

A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is known throughout London, though he himself is rarely seen. Enigmatic and desired, vicious yet sympathetic, he is a model of success, wealth, and charisma. When Fox turns his entrepreneurial gaze on a small feminist magazine known as the Artemis, his intoxicating influence quickly begins to affect the lives of those involved with the paper: the fragile editor, Hunter; generous Rosa, who splits her time and affections between her brother and two other men; innocent Annette, whose journey from school to the real world ends up being more fraught than she could have foreseen; and their circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom find themselves both drawn to and repulsed by Fox. Told with dark humor, keen wit, and intense insight into the seductive nature of power, The Flight from the Enchanter is an intricate and dazzling work of fiction from the author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822007558018

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The Flight from the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Author : Lila Azam Zanganeh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393083004

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The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness by Lila Azam Zanganeh Pdf

Discovering happiness in reading the work of an extraordinary writer. The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great writer of happiness." Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory; Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, and language in all its allusions. She explores Nabokov's geography-from his Russian childhood to the landscapes of "his" America-suffers encounters with his beloved "nature," hallucinates an interview with the master, and seeks the "crunch of happiness" in his singular vocabulary. This beautifully illuminated book will both reignite the passion of experienced Nabokovians and lure the innocent reader to a well of delights as yet unseen.

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679728863

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The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

The precursor to Nabokov's classic novel, Lolita. • A middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his obsession with her daughter. • "A gem to be appreciated by any admirer of the most graceful and provocative literary craftsman." —Chicago Tribune The unnamed protagonist of the story is, outwardly, a respectable and comfortable man; inside, he churns at the pubescent femininity of certain girls. Rare girls – one in a thousand – whose coltish grace and subconscious flirtatiousness betray, to his obsessed mind, a very special bud on the moist verge of its bloom. Sitting on a park bench one day, he is tantalized by the fleeting form of just such a girl roller-skating on a gravel path. His desire to be near this beauty burns in him and drives him to begin a courtship of the child’s pitiful mother – a course that can end only in the disintegration of his life. Over the years, the idea of The Enchanter grew; it changed; it developed “claws and wings.” By 1953 it was ready to furnish the basic theme of Lolita. "The Enchanter is entertaining independent of its Lolita connection. It is arch, delicious and beautifully written." —Publishers Weekly

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019345

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The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) by Iris Murdoch Pdf

It's all dry sand running through the fingers.' When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BIDISHA VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

Author : Sara Douglass
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429911514

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Enchanter by Sara Douglass Pdf

The stunning sequel to The Wayfarer Redemption Axis is a true hero, in every sense of the word. On his shoulders lies the double burden of prophecy and war. Having fulfilled the first part of the prophecy by becoming the StarMan, he now must reunite the three races inhabiting his world. It is his destiny to lead an army against his evil half-brother, to regain control of Tencendor, once the greatest land in the world. It is his destiny to be caught between the two women he loves, one the epitome of gentility, beauty, and intelligence, the other a fierce warrior with a cunning wit. And it is his destiny to be thwarted at every turn by the vicious Goragel, an insane monster bent on destroying all that Axis works to preserve . . . Enchanter is the riveting sequel to Sara Douglass's spell-binding first novel The Wayfarer Redemption, and winner of the 1996 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Sara Douglass has taken America by storm with this powerful tale of love, prophecy, battles, and revenge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1571130217

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Long Shadows by Marie Luise Kaschnitz Pdf

This collection of short stories, some semi-autobiographical, by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-74), the eminent German novelist and poet, reflects many of the themes to be found throughout her fiction, such as the dread of moral anarchy which leaves nothing in its wake, and the shaping of individual destinies by loneliness, insecurity and fear. Usually told from a woman's viewpoint, her works feature strong female characters whose inner strength enable them to overcome their fears and accept their fates with stoic determination. Kaschnitz's chief concern is the human condition, giving her work a continuing relevance; she confronts such universal issues as growing old, growing up and the loss of religious faith as well as those which have a more contemporary resonance, including the social problems of working parents and adoption.

Author : A S Byatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473521568

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Degrees of Freedom by A S Byatt Pdf

First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch's own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt discussed her interest in the thought of Sartre, Plato, Freud and Simone Weil, and related this to the form of the novels themselves. This edition of Degrees of Freedom has an added dossier of later essays and reviews of Iris Murdoch's work by A.S Byatt, taking us up to the publication of The Book and the Brotherhood in 1987. It also includes a substantial pamplet written for the British Council which follows Murdoch's fiction as far as The Good Apprentice.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407020211

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Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony. The night is warm and clear, and after dinner the guests walk in the grounds and under the stars, full of happy anticipation. But then there is a sudden and extraordinary event, which changes everything. Iris Murdoch's novel is a marvellous and compelling human comedy. Edward and Marian, the couple at the centre of the story, are led by events to learn the truth about themselves; in the process, their friends, and lovers, are forced to make new choices, and see things as they are. And watching over all of them is Jackson, Benet's servant, a dark, mysterious and dangerous presence. It is Jackson who must intervene in the story to set the two young lovers onto the right path.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407018249

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An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch Pdf

After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web.

Author : Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087249876X

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Understanding Iris Murdoch by Cheryl Browning Bove Pdf

Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.

Author : Jeri Westerson
Publisher : Dragua Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998223872

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Clockwork Gypsy by Jeri Westerson Pdf

A diabolical plot is afoot to kill thousands by connecting England’s railway lines to a deadly curse. The beautiful and mysterious Mingli Zhao, Special Inspector from Scotland Yard, enlists the help of Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, who uses his skills with summoning Jewish daemons to perform true magic to help solve supernatural crimes. Meanwhile, a Hungarian Romani—part man, part clockwork—will stop at nothing to kill the man he believes is responsible for his Hell of an existence that is slowly grinding his mind into the nothingness of gears and pistons. It’s a race against time for Leopold to foil the fiendish plot of the railway barons, fight off a plutocratic society of goblins, struggle to gain the romantic attentions of Miss Zhao…and discover the identity of the Clockwork Gypsy before he kills again.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019758

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The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide. Funny, compelling and extremely moving, THE GOOD APPRENTICE is about guilt ridden despair, and the difficult problem of how to try to be good - and the various magical devices which console those who are sensible enough not to try.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019161

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The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. And the heart of all, there is, as always, the family's loyal servant, the Italian girl.