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Original Title:	A Fairly Honourable Defeat
ISBN:	0141186178 (ISBN13: 9780141186177)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist (1970)

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Iris Murdoch

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 1693 Users | 162 Reviews

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Title	:	A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Author	:	Iris Murdoch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2001 by Penguin Classics (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Novels

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In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly.

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Still getting accustomed to Murdoch's writing, I found this book compelling and hard to put down. I read until 2 in the morning because I needed to know what would finally happen to the characters. I felt like I knew the gay couple already, and related to the married couple until they got into philosophical trouble. Her prose is seamless, characters well developed yet unusual. Her philosophical perspective is intriguing to me. This is mature, thoughtful reading.

Relationships : It's Complicated!Tallis loves Morgan but Morgan loves Julius, Julius woos Simon but Simon loves Axel, Hilda loves Rupert but Rupert covets Morgan, Julius wants Hilda but Hilda loves Peter, Peter loves Morgan but Morgan loves Rupert. Leonard loves nobody because he's an old grinch and the exception to the rule of musical chairs deployed by Murdoch here in her study of love, morality and fidelity. If the tune sounds familiar, it's because I've spent half an hour on Google trying to

This paragraph at the beginning of the novel, after the first few lines of dialogue, captures why I love Iris Murdoch so much: "Hilda and Rupert Foster, celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary with a bottle of rather dry champagne, were sitting in the evening sun in the garden of their house in Priory Grove, London. S.W.10. Hilda, a plumper angel now, reclined limply, exhibiting shiny burnished knees below a short shrift dress of orangey yellow. Her feet were bare. Her undulating dark hair

I love Iris Murdoch, but this just kind of...went on. Long dialogues are not my cup of tea.



What an amazing classic! Murdock was a brilliant woman and her writing and philosophizing is proof of that. This book is an amazing look at dialogue and character development almost totally through dialogue. I've been reading so many modern books that it was a treat to read a classic again. The characters in this book are not worthy of our admiration or sympathy and yet I really did not want the "Iago" character to destroy everyone. I can see how she is credited with giving new life to the

Truly one of her greatest, full of wisdom and light. Good and evil battle it out in Hampstead: after all, the bourgeoisie have feelings and moral struggles, same as the red-blooded working man or woman. Honest! The background gay romance is melancholy, and a little bit heartbreaking.