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507 рубA Word Child
Iris Murdoch Saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. Формат издания: 13 см х 20 см.
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600 рубAn Accidental Man
Iris Murdoch This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can 'save' him. In this latter role we meet Austin's estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, and Austin's far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin's fate, with hilarious and appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope and variety in which Iris Murdoch's astonishing fertility of mind and unerring narrative skill are brilliantly combined. Формат: 13 см х 20 см.
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468 рубAn Unofficial Rose
Iris Murdoch Hugh meditates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, dreams of abandoning his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has relentless attachments elsewhere. Randall's wife Ann, the central character, takes upon herself the strains and pains of all the others, while being the victim of her own private dream. The irony and pathos of this tangled situation has extended Iris Murdoch's powers to the full, but her mastery of it is complete. Impelled by affection, lust, illusion, and dissolution, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
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2359 рубIridium
David Murdoch
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630 рубNuns and Soldiers
Iris Murdoch Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her god. They plan to live together and do good works. Polish exile and imaginary soldier, the "Count" watches over Gertrude with loving patience. An accomplished scrounger and failed painter, Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans, with his mistress, to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this rich and riveting story? Who will act nobly, and who will act basely? Who will be lucky? Формат: 13 см х 20 см.
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511 рубThe Black Prince
Iris Murdoch A story about being in love, "The Black Prince" is also a remarkable intellectual thriller with a superbly involved plot, and a meditation on the nature of art and love and the deity who rules over both. Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a "block". Encompassed by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent brother and a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, together with Baffin's restless wife and youthful daughter - Bradley attempts escape. His failure and its aftermath lead to a violent climax; and to a coda which casts a shifting perspective on all that has gone before.
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493 рубThe Italian Girl
Iris Murdoch 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. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who was always "a second mother"... This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. Формат: 13 см x 20 см.
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468 рубThe Nice and the Good
Iris Murdoch A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its many aspects, as embodied in a fascinating array of characters. The resonant sub plot involves murder and black magic in Whitehall, as the novel leads us through stress and terror to a profoundly joyous conclusion. "A masterpiece by reason of its profound moral vitality, and the projection of that life into the conduct and motives of her characters" Country Life "Pulsing through these complex adventures in lust and crime is brilliant moral clarity. Just as Jane Austen defines moral categories like "sense" and "sensibility" in her novels, so Iris Murdoch creates new constellations of meaning around those stand-bys of ordinary language, the nice and the good" Newsweek ...
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9108 рубThe Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: Contending Perspectives (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia, 9)
Ian Chalmers, Vedi R. Hadiz, Murdoch University Asia Research Centre Since the 1970s, the Indonesian economy has boomed and is considered one of the world's greatest success stories. It has also transformed Indonesian domestic policies in fundamental ways. Translating key speeches and articles from the political debates surrounding Indonesian development, Ian Chalmers and Vedi Hadiz present and analyze trends in development thinking by leading Indonesian figures over the past thirty years. They outline the three contending streams of thought that have long influenced policy making in Indonesia: economic nationalism; economic liberalism; and economic popularism. Tracing the evolution of these three ideologies, The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia argues that Indonesia's recent economic success has been accompanied by a growing diversity of views about future development policy.
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630 рубThe Sandcastle
Iris Murdoch The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Моr and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the Headmaster. Моr, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt; magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself enchanted, advises Моr to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a "great love" be purchased at too high a price? Формат издания: 13 см х 20 см.
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416 рубThe Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and dwell in seclusion in a house by the sea. Whilst there, by an extraordinary coincidence he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and totally outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic...
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416 рубThe Severed Head
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 emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, "this is nothing to do with happiness".
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457 рубThe Unicorn
Iris Murdoch When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with a number of weird mysteries and involved in a drama she only partly understands. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house, like the castle of the Sleeping Beauty, under a spell, whose magic also touches the neighbouring house of Riders, inhabited by a scholarly recluse. Marian's employer, Hannah, and her retainers, seem to be acting out some tragic pattern: but it is not clear whether Hannah herself, the central figure, the Unicorn, is innocent victim or violent author, saint or witch... In a novel that has all the beauty of a fairy story and the melodrama of a Gothic tale, Murdoch explores the fantasies and ambiguities which beset those who are condemned to be passionately abandoned and yet hopelessly imperfect in their search for God. Формат: 13 см x 20 см.
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