The Good Apprentice

by Iris Murdoch

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101495704
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/2001
Series:	Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	597 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea. She herself was also the recipient of many esteemed awards: Dame of the Order of the British Empire, the Royal Society of Literature's Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club's (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times' (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
 

Table of Contents

The Good Apprentice I. The Prodigal Son
II. Seegard
III. Life After Death

Editorial Reviews

Iris Murdoch is here very much at her formidable, myth-making best; inventive, comic, moving. -- The Times

Elaine Feinstein