Elegy For Iris

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466854243
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegy for Iris written by John Bayley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312253820
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegy for Iris written by John Bayley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-11-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and of aging and a clebration of a brilliant life and an undying love. So John Bayley descibes his life with his wife, Iris Mudoch who has Alzheimer's.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312421113
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegy for Iris written by John Bayley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and of aging and a clebration of a brilliant life and an undying love. So John Bayley descibes his life with his wife, Iris Mudoch who has Alzheimer's.

Author : Peter J. Conradi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048759
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by Peter J. Conradi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conradi assesses the intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and writer. In addition to details of her personal life, he details her philosophical works and 26 novels. 50 photos.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715629321
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris and the Friends written by John Bayley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last month or so of the life of Iris Bayley, the wife of the author, provides the framework for this biography. But within this structure the author enters into extensive memories of the past. The book could almost be called The Use of Memory - in a Proustian sense. It continually harks back to the author's own childhood and to Iris's early years to explain how they came together and how they were 'right' for each other. So in this book the author explains much more about himself and describes in much more details how he managed to cope with the ordeal of seeing his wife become terminally ill and lose her faculties. In this he quotes a considerable amount from literature, which is his own field of study.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393050073
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Special written by Iris Murdoch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was first published in Winter's Tales No. 3 in 1957. It was also published in 1959 in Japan in an English language textbook with Japanese annotations.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244369
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire written by John Bayley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless work that will bring healing to anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one. John Bayley began writing Iris and Her Friends, a companion to the New York Times bestseller Elegy for Iris, late at night while his wife, the beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's Disease. As Iris was losing her memory, Bayley was flooded with vivid recollections of his own. In lyrical reverie, Bayley recreates the unforgettable scenes of his youth, from his birth to a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end. This is the transcendent work of a brilliant man, whose examination of the tragedies and joys of his own life will give readers great healing insight. John Bayley's Iris and Her Friends is nothing less than a classic of true love and sorrow. "Love makes every beautifully formed sentence, every generously shared moment, shimmer and sing."—Donna Seaman, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495650
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea, The Sea written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174129
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackson's Dilemma written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101523093
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book and the Brotherhood written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about love and friendship and Marxism Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.