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Black Prince

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ISBN-10: 0142180114

ISBN-13: 9780142180112

Edition: 2003

Authors: Iris Murdoch, Martha C. Nussbaum

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Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.72" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 0.660

Iris Murdoch was one of the twentieth century's most prominent novelists, winner of the Booker Prize for The Sea. She died in 1999.

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Editor's Foreword
Bradley Pearson's Foreword
Bradley Pearson's Story
Postscript
Four Postscripts
Editor's Postscript