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Author: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him int...
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Sara Jordan
Duration 9h 30m
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. Along with his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, Jake embarks on a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome.
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Janet Hargreaves
Duration 12h
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter school life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free of their own particular obsessions.
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 12h
Mor's life as a schoolmaster at a public school is disrupted by the arrival of a young and beautiful painter commissioned to paint the headmaster.
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 12h 40m
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. As the new bell is installed, the old bell - legendary symbol of religion and magic - is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Meade, leader of the community, is confronted by a man with whom he had...
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