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A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 (Hardback)
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A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45 (Hardback)

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Hardback 256 Pages / Published: 21/01/2010
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These never-before published diaries and letters will be a MUST for every Iris Murdoch fan...These collected writings, never published before, comprise a diary which Iris Murdoch kept in her last summer at Oxford, immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, and her wartime correspondence with two men: the poet Frank Thomson, murdered in Bulgaria in 1944, and a teacher for the British Council, David Hicks. They reveal the young writer at her sprightly, original best - as gripped by her own affairs, and those of her friends and peers, as by the great affairs of the world; exuberant when in love, and yet remarkably philosophical even when love goes painfully wrong. Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a treasury of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century - a fascinating private memoir which sheds new light on a brilliant mind in development, but also a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.

Publisher: Short Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781906021221
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 237 x 160 mm

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