Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466854243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.
Elegy for Iris
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466854243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466854243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing." So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels. In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love.
The Iris Trilogy
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
ISBN: 9780349117195
Category : Alzheimer's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Wry, intelligent (an, at times, unexpectedly hilarious) The Iris Trilogy is an unforgettable inquiry into the nature of love and identity and a uniquely moving articulation of loss.
Publisher: Time Warner Books UK
ISBN: 9780349117195
Category : Alzheimer's disease
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Wry, intelligent (an, at times, unexpectedly hilarious) The Iris Trilogy is an unforgettable inquiry into the nature of love and identity and a uniquely moving articulation of loss.
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: Duckworth
ISBN: 9780715653968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year, intense and unconventional but happy marriage, detailed in the classic bestselling memoir Iris. Despite Iris’ extramarital affairs with men and women throughout their long marriage - which John always suspected - their bond was unbreakable, and his memoir beautifully captures their child-like moments of bliss: walking in forests, swimming together in streams, and sharing hot cups of coffee on crisp mornings. These are touching but poignant stories with the knowledge that Iris and her grand intellect would eventually succumb to Alzheimer’s disease. John would care for her singlehandedly for five years, the last of which he writes about in Iris and the Friends that also describes her peaceful passing. Finally, he reflects on his bereavement and the void that is left when a soulmate departs in A Widower’s House. All three books are told by the person who knew Iris best, with gentle humour - at times unbearably moving - in his portrayal of a remarkable woman.
Publisher: Duckworth
ISBN: 9780715653968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year, intense and unconventional but happy marriage, detailed in the classic bestselling memoir Iris. Despite Iris’ extramarital affairs with men and women throughout their long marriage - which John always suspected - their bond was unbreakable, and his memoir beautifully captures their child-like moments of bliss: walking in forests, swimming together in streams, and sharing hot cups of coffee on crisp mornings. These are touching but poignant stories with the knowledge that Iris and her grand intellect would eventually succumb to Alzheimer’s disease. John would care for her singlehandedly for five years, the last of which he writes about in Iris and the Friends that also describes her peaceful passing. Finally, he reflects on his bereavement and the void that is left when a soulmate departs in A Widower’s House. All three books are told by the person who knew Iris best, with gentle humour - at times unbearably moving - in his portrayal of a remarkable woman.
Banking On Love
Author: Iris Bolling
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Jonathan Michael moved from London England to claim the woman who inspired him to greatness. In the course of him finding his happily ever after, she is kidnapped and held for a ransom he does not have the power to pay…control of her family’s bank. Grace-Heather always knew something was missing from her life. It never occurred to her he was always a phone call away. Discovering love filled her heart in a way she never imagined. Happiness is within her reach when she is literally snatched off a street corner and held for ransom. The family bank is the key to her freedom, but will the family be willing to pay the price or will she have to Bank On Love to save her.
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Jonathan Michael moved from London England to claim the woman who inspired him to greatness. In the course of him finding his happily ever after, she is kidnapped and held for a ransom he does not have the power to pay…control of her family’s bank. Grace-Heather always knew something was missing from her life. It never occurred to her he was always a phone call away. Discovering love filled her heart in a way she never imagined. Happiness is within her reach when she is literally snatched off a street corner and held for ransom. The family bank is the key to her freedom, but will the family be willing to pay the price or will she have to Bank On Love to save her.
INVESTED
Author: Iris Bolling
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Myles Dunning, the thirty-five-year-old CEO of Dunning Bank and Trust, is fighting off one takeover attempt after another to save his family's historical bank. Recently ranked the third largest bank in the world, the leaders in the financial industry conspire to prevent further growth by any means necessary. Chrystina Price is a voluptuous, lovable, powerhouse, whose sole purpose in life is to uplift and protect the man she has loved from the first day they met...Myles Dunning. Discovering enemies, close and afar, Chrystina throws everything she has into uncovering and blocking each attempt to bring Myles down. After a boardroom victory raised the bank closer to the number two ranking, Myles and Chrystina share a victory kiss that unleashes an unstoppable flow of love that no dam could control. The bliss of love is short lived when Miles learns a tragic truth. When the integrity of the family always comes first is it worth Investing in love.
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Myles Dunning, the thirty-five-year-old CEO of Dunning Bank and Trust, is fighting off one takeover attempt after another to save his family's historical bank. Recently ranked the third largest bank in the world, the leaders in the financial industry conspire to prevent further growth by any means necessary. Chrystina Price is a voluptuous, lovable, powerhouse, whose sole purpose in life is to uplift and protect the man she has loved from the first day they met...Myles Dunning. Discovering enemies, close and afar, Chrystina throws everything she has into uncovering and blocking each attempt to bring Myles down. After a boardroom victory raised the bank closer to the number two ranking, Myles and Chrystina share a victory kiss that unleashes an unstoppable flow of love that no dam could control. The bliss of love is short lived when Miles learns a tragic truth. When the integrity of the family always comes first is it worth Investing in love.
Private Stock
Author: Iris Bolling
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Cainan Scott has come to the end of the road. The people looking to kill him have discovered his location. The witness Protection Program has done all they could. He now has to walk away to save the woman he loves. AnnieMarie has waited all her life for a love like her parent’s. To save someone’s life the man she loves exposed himself to criminals he was scheduled to testify against. Now they want him dead. The emotions are high from the murder of her father to the kidnapping of her sister and now the betrayal of a family member. The emotional bank is now overdrawn for Cainan and AnneMarie. Will they cut their losses and go their separate ways Or will they make a withdrawal from love’s Private Stock?
Publisher: Siri Austin Entertainment LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Cainan Scott has come to the end of the road. The people looking to kill him have discovered his location. The witness Protection Program has done all they could. He now has to walk away to save the woman he loves. AnnieMarie has waited all her life for a love like her parent’s. To save someone’s life the man she loves exposed himself to criminals he was scheduled to testify against. Now they want him dead. The emotions are high from the murder of her father to the kidnapping of her sister and now the betrayal of a family member. The emotional bank is now overdrawn for Cainan and AnneMarie. Will they cut their losses and go their separate ways Or will they make a withdrawal from love’s Private Stock?
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
As his wife, beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's, John Bayley wrote his own recollections as a companion piece to "Elegy for Iris". Sharing his memories from childhood as a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end, Bayley's examinations of his own life offer readers great healing insight.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
As his wife, beloved novelist Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's, John Bayley wrote his own recollections as a companion piece to "Elegy for Iris". Sharing his memories from childhood as a civil servant in colonial India to his long romance with Iris and its heartbreaking end, Bayley's examinations of his own life offer readers great healing insight.
Eternal Spring
Author: Iris Kain
Publisher: Pirate Farm Books
ISBN: 1957244038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A young man with an extraordinary gift. A zealous commune isolated from the world. What could possibly go wrong? Fifteen-year-old Joshua Moses has spent his life nestled in the cradle of the Eternal Spring. His commune family doesn’t know he harbors a dark and powerful secret. If they find out, they might hail him as a prophet—or cast him out forever. The Spring is all Joshua has ever known, and he believes in its message with his whole heart. However, he senses it stands in jeopardy because of a terrible secret the Reverend has been hiding from his flock. Marshall Hudson is an Army sergeant with a stellar career history and intuition he’s learned never to ignore. As he nears retirement, strange dreams summon him to the south. What lies ahead for him there is unknown, but Marshall has never shied away from danger. He hangs up his uniform and heads to the place in his visions. What he discovers is unlike anything he expected. There is a darkness hidden in Eternal Spring, one hungry for them all. Marshall and Joshua are the only ones capable of stopping this imminent danger. And Joshua has a plan to keep the commune alive. One that uses his power at any cost.
Publisher: Pirate Farm Books
ISBN: 1957244038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A young man with an extraordinary gift. A zealous commune isolated from the world. What could possibly go wrong? Fifteen-year-old Joshua Moses has spent his life nestled in the cradle of the Eternal Spring. His commune family doesn’t know he harbors a dark and powerful secret. If they find out, they might hail him as a prophet—or cast him out forever. The Spring is all Joshua has ever known, and he believes in its message with his whole heart. However, he senses it stands in jeopardy because of a terrible secret the Reverend has been hiding from his flock. Marshall Hudson is an Army sergeant with a stellar career history and intuition he’s learned never to ignore. As he nears retirement, strange dreams summon him to the south. What lies ahead for him there is unknown, but Marshall has never shied away from danger. He hangs up his uniform and heads to the place in his visions. What he discovers is unlike anything he expected. There is a darkness hidden in Eternal Spring, one hungry for them all. Marshall and Joshua are the only ones capable of stopping this imminent danger. And Joshua has a plan to keep the commune alive. One that uses his power at any cost.
Raven's Tears
Author: Michael James Matson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975410752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
What do you do when your future depends on solving a crime, only to discover that the one woman you've ever loved is the culprit? How do you live with yourself when the only truth in your life is the love you've found in another? Elves, magic, swords, sorcery, Gods, another world, magi-tech gadgets; fake identities, crime, love, lies, honor, betrayal... and let's not forget about the several episodes of good, steamy sex! Genres mix and meld in Raven's Tears, but the result is an unforgettable tale of love and treachery, set against a lush backdrop of genre fantasy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975410752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
What do you do when your future depends on solving a crime, only to discover that the one woman you've ever loved is the culprit? How do you live with yourself when the only truth in your life is the love you've found in another? Elves, magic, swords, sorcery, Gods, another world, magi-tech gadgets; fake identities, crime, love, lies, honor, betrayal... and let's not forget about the several episodes of good, steamy sex! Genres mix and meld in Raven's Tears, but the result is an unforgettable tale of love and treachery, set against a lush backdrop of genre fantasy
The Book of Life (Movie Tie-In)
Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593511441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling third installment of the All Souls series, the sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! In The Book of Life Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the third volume of the All Souls series, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In palatial homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593511441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling third installment of the All Souls series, the sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! In The Book of Life Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the third volume of the All Souls series, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In palatial homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.