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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Bell The Bell Iris Murdoch A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield,… OL1326304W
Die Flucht vor dem Zauberer Die Flucht vor dem Zauberer Iris Murdoch 286p. ; 18 cm OL1326306W
Le dilemme de Jackson Le dilemme de Jackson Iris Murdoch On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all… OL1326326W
Une'Tete Coupee Une'Tete Coupee Iris Murdoch Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive em… OL1326348W
Existentialists and Mystics Existentialists and Mystics Iris Murdoch Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her mos… OL1326355W
A fairly honourable defeat A fairly honourable defeat Iris Murdoch "One of Iris Murdoch’s more successful novels, A Fairly Honourable Defeat combines elements of realism and allegory to create a commentary on the moral shortcomings of the individual and society. The… OL1326383W
An unofficial rose An unofficial rose Iris Murdoch The nine characters in this novel are all looking for love; and so closely is the web woven that the actions and passions of each are constantly affecting the others. The irony and pathos of this tan… OL1326390W
Great humorous stories Great humorous stories Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell RONNIE CORBETT: *Introduction* P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Voice from the Past'* RING LARDNER: *Mr and Mrs Fix-It* H.F. ELLIS: *Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott* (from *The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA*) … OL19302720W
SOLDATS ET LES NONNES SOLDATS ET LES NONNES Iris Murdoch Le remariage d'une veuve avec un jeune peintre et l'amour silencieux de son amie, religieuse, pour un comte polonais. Cet énoncé paraît banal, mais quel roman réussi a tissé pour la vingtième fois ce… OL24299361W