London: Penguin, 1962. First Edition. Signed by Author. First UK Paperback Edition. A VG copy. Signed and inscribed by the Author to the title page: "Chantal and Brian/ for your collection/ Iris Murdoch". Further details can be provided upon request as to the identity of the recipients of this book. This book is part of a larger listing of rare Iris Murdoch signed first editions and proofs . Scarce with these attributes. Uncommon in signed state. Photographs/scans available upon request.

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IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. During the war she was an Assistant Principal at the Treasury, and then worked with UNRRA in London, Belgium and Austria. She held a studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and then in 1948 she returned to Oxford, where she became a Fellow of St Anne's College. Until her death in February 1999, she lived with her husband, the teacher and critic John Bayley, in Oxford. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. In the 1997 PEN Awards she received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net, and went on to write twenty-six novels, including the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978). Other literary awards include the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974). Her works of philosophy include Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) and Existentialists and Mystics (1997). She died in February 1999.

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Bookseller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA. (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 355490722103
Title: The Flight from the Enchanter
Author: Murdoch, Iris
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1962

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