A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Everyone is thinking about Julius King.For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda’s tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan’s abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He’s thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.’The most important novelist writing in my time’ A. S. ByattWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL

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Weight 0.322 kg
Dimensions 2.7 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

464
Publisher

Year Published

2002-4-25
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099285339
About The Author

Iris Murdoch was 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 Anne's 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.

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