By Priscilla Martin;Anne Rowe
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was once the most renowned and efficient English novelists of the 20th century. This Literary existence not just concentrates on her fiction but in addition locations it within the contexts of her own existence and the political and cultural advancements which it displays and addresses.
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