Stories — Book

A writer in the true sense of the word, Iris Murdoch not only penned books in both fiction and philosophy, she also wrote literary criticism, poetry, plays and dramatic adaptations of her novels. Born in Ireland in 1919, Murdoch moved to Britain at a young age, attending progressive, independent schools as a child before attaining her undergraduate degree at Oxford, where she studied Greats. During the Second World War she was conscripted to work at Her Majesty’s Treasury, and after the war she went on to work across Europe helping refugees with...