2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Early Novels
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Iris Murdoch
In a Book Trust pamphlet published about her in 1988,
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Iris Murdoch wrote:
Novels are individuals, about individuals, essentially comic, essentially sad, telling of the secret travail which ordinary life conceals, and formulating deep truths about human society and the human soul. They are also works of art.