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# A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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			        		Praise for Iris Murdoch and A Fairly Honourable Defeat:&quot;[A Fairly Honourable Defeat] remains, fifty years later, perhaps the most beautiful literary representation of a same-sex marriage I know . . . the richness of Murdoch&#x2019;s novel comes from its success [. . .] in combining Shakespearean tragedy with Shakespearean comedy . . . decidedly her best.&quot; &#x2014;Garth Greenwell&quot;Murdoch was the rare kind of great, buoyant, confident writer who could drive the whole machine.&#xA0; She was as in touch with animal instincts as intellectual ones.&#xA0; The scope of her vision makes you feel, when you are close to her fiction, that you have glimpsed the sublime.&quot; &#x2014;Dwight Garner, The New York Times&#xA0;&quot;An ambitious exploration of the philosophical problem of evil . . . one of the most enjoyable and interesting of Iris Murdoch&apos;s recent books . . .&#xA0;one is left with a feeling of admiration for the brilliance and complexity of Murdoch&apos;s intellect.&quot; &#x2014;Rubin Rabinovitz, The New York Times&quot;The most important novelist writing in my time.&quot; &#x2014;A.S. Byatt&quot;A distinguished novelist of a very rare kind.&quot; &#x2014;Kingsley Amis&quot;Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable&#x2014;behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist.&quot; &#x2014;Sunday Times
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Dame Iris Murdoch&#xA0;(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&apos;s disease in the mid-1990s. Her novels have won many prizes: the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for&#xA0;The Black Prince, the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for&#xA0;The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and the Booker Prize for&#xA0;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&apos;s Companion of Literature award, and the National Arts Club&apos;s (New York) Medal of Honor for Literature. In 2008, she was named one of the Times&apos; (London) 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
						    	
					    	
						
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