The Good Apprentice - Softcover

Murdoch, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099285258 ISBN 13: 9780099285250

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity and his motives. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide. Funny, compelling and extremely moving, THE GOOD APPRENTICE is about guilt ridden despair, and the difficult problem of how to try to be good - and the various magical devices which console those who are sensible enough not to try.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099285258
• ISBN 13: 9780099285250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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