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The Green Knight
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The Green Knight Paperback - 1995

by Murdoch, Iris

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From the nationally acclaimed author of The Book of the Brotherhood comes a magnificently crafted and magical novel which explores biblical and medieval themes in a contemporary London setting. "Enthralling . . . its sensuousness, its visionary physical detail, is a pleasure".--San Francisco Chronicle.

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Penguin Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. (mystery, fantasy, london, suspense) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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Details

  • Title The Green Knight
  • Author Murdoch, Iris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-01-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # NC03B-00963
  • ISBN 9780140243376 / 0140243372
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.08 x 1.13 in (19.84 x 12.90 x 2.87 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 980
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Brothers - England - London
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93030618
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a stranger—whom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes’ circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disrupted—for the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.

Media reviews

“A tour de force . . . One puts down this novel with a feeling of having feasted at a table of great ideas.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“This is as enthralling a web as [Murdoch] has ever spun, and its sensuousness, its visionary physical detail, is a pleasure.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Her most emotionally gripping novel yet . . . built around Manichaean juxtapositions of good and evil, love and power, celebration and passion, light and dark.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 11/28/1994, Page 0

About the author

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry.

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