Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life

This series offers stimulating accounts of the literary careers of the most admired and influential English-language authors. Volumes follow the outline of writers' working lives, not in the spirit of traditional biography, but aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing.

This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins by identifying the youthful idealism of her fledgling publications at Badminton and Oxford as precursor...