A fairly honourable defeat - Hardcover

Murdoch, Iris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701115343 ISBN 13: 9780701115340

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1970

Synopsis

A Fairly Honourable Defeat, 1970 1st Edition (2nd printing), by Iris Murdoch. Hardcover with dust jacket, 436 pages, published by Viking.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Introduction by Susan Hill

In this dark comedy of errors, Julius, a cynical intellectual, decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.

About the Author:

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. She herself was also the recipient of many esteemed awards: Dame of the Order of the British Empire, the Royal Society of Literature's Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club's (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times' (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0701115343
• ISBN 13: 9780701115340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402