Iris Murdoch

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind.....

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....

When George McCaffrey’s car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame....

Hilary Burde was a rising star in academia until a tragic accident plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into two decades of depression and guilt....

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has...

Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything—even God.

An enigmatic publisher’s sway on a circle of friends drives each to confront their most dangerous obsessions....

When old friends Henry and Cato reunite after years apart, they quickly become embroiled in the drama of each other’s lives....

Father Carel Fisher’s London rectory - like his faith - is a shell....

In this intricately plotted novel, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancé, sending them both off on strange, dark, and amusing paths....

The funeral of Edward’s mother brings him home for the first time in years....

Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions....

Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues is Murdoch’s philosophical masterpiece featuring fictionalized discussions between the intellectual giants of the classical world, including Socrates and Plato....

On the eve of the Easter Rising, a divided Irish family is pushed to the brink of destruction....

Tras muchos años de trabajo y muchas sábanas revueltas en el ejercicio de amores desganados, el gran Charles Arrowby, famoso dramaturgo, director y figura destacada de las tablas londinenses....

Una novela divertida y profunda a un tiempo, y con un elemento de suspense que explora con maestría los temas que desde siempre han preocupado a la autora: el amor, la amistad y la perversa frontera que separa el bien y el mal....

El protagonista de esta inquietante novela es un nonagenario llamado Bruno, que, en el ocaso de sus días, yace en la cama obsesionado por las sombras de su pasado y seducido todavía por su principal pasión: las arañas....