Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

by Peter J. Conradi (Editor)

Overview

These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds new light on a brilliant young mind ("sharp and polished as a sword" as Frances Wilson describes it), while painting a vivid picture of life during the Second World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199831944
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/23/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter J. Conradi is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Iris Murdoch: A Life and, more recently, Going Buddhist and At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral.

Table of Contents

General Introduction & cast-lists p9 Countdown to a War Introduction p19 The Magpie Players - 1939 p31 WRITING TOFRANK THOMPSON Introduction p81 Frank - 1940-44 p93 WRITING TODavid Hicks Introduction p165 David - 1938-46 p175 Postscript p301