In this revised study of Iris Murdoch's fiction, the author argues that her spirited earlier work gave way to a deeper more comic style in the 1970s and 80s. He regards her novels as being serious entertainment and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, not as disguised philosophy. For this second edition, Dr Conradi has added a chapter on her most recent fiction "The Good Apprentice" and "The Book and the Brotherhood" and relates her work to that of Dostoevsky. The author has published articles on John Fowles and Dostoevsky.
- ISBN10 0333472756
- ISBN13 9780333472750
- Publish Date 22 December 1988 (first published 11 July 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 314
- Language English