Remembering Iris Murdoch

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Remembering Iris

   • Jeffrey Meyers

   Pages 1-27

3. Letters

   • Jeffrey Meyers

   Pages 28-86

4. Interviews

   • Jeffrey Meyers

   Pages 87-112

5. On the Memoirs of A. N. Wilson and John Bayley

   • Jeffrey Meyers

   Pages 113-120

6. Back Matter

   Pages 121-124

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This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will deepen our understanding of Murdoch's complex life and work.

• edition
• interview
• Rebecca West
• understanding
• english
• British and Irish Literature

"These previously unpublished letters from Murdoch and her husband John Bayley to Meyers are literarily informative and personally touching; and Meyers's own viewpoint on her writing and character, based on his personal contact with her and her husband, is very valuable. His view of the memoirs by Bayley and A.N. Wilson, which seem to take opposing points of view about her, introduces much-needed balance into the discussion of her personality and character." - Stephen E. Tabachnick, Professor of English Literature, University of Memphis, USA

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently published Samuel Johnson: The Struggle (2008), The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe (2009), George Orwell: Life and Art (2010) - his fifth work on Orwell - and John Huston: Courage and Art (2011). Thirty of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents.

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