Valerie Purton

Gebundenes Buch

An Iris Murdoch Chronology

Beschreibung

Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer.

Autor

VALERIE PURTON is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of A Coleridge Chronology (1993) and (with Christopher Sturman) of Poems by Two Brothers (1993). She has also edited Dickens's Dombey and Son (1996) and Landscape and Friendship (2000).

Produktdetails

• Author Chronologies Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-4558-7
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781403945587
• ISBN-10: 1403945586
• Artikelnr.: 22696238

Rezensionen

'This title would be a useful addition to any university library supporting courses in contemporary fiction, women's writing and philosophy. The popular appeal of Murdoch's writing may also make this title of interest to public libraries.' - Linda Kemp, Reference Reviews