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Original Title:	The Unicorn
ISBN:	014002476X (ISBN13: 9780140024760)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Marian Taylor, Gerald Scottow, Violet Evercreech, Jamesie Evercreech, Effingham Cooper, Alice Lejour, Max Lejour, Hannah Crean-Smith, Peter Crean-Smith, Philip 'Pip' Lejour, Denis Nolan
Setting:	Gaze Castle(United Kingdom)

The Unicorn Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

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Title	:	The Unicorn
Author	:	Iris Murdoch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	January 6th 1987 by Penguin Books (first published 1963)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Gothic. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. 20th Century. Novels

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I love this book so much, but don't know what to make of it at all. It really is very like a unicorn itself: you try to explain it and you just sound crazy. How seriously should you take it? And yet is it not the very most serious thing that ever was?

This is my first Murdoch. I'm reading her because I read an interesting article recently that suggested that she and I have some overlapping ideas about morality. Reading this book, I suspect it's more than that. We have some overlapping and intersecting ways of being in the world and with other people, congruent preoccupations.

I want to contrast her with Mieville, who I found so hard -- not difficult but hard-edged. I ricocheted off the surface of him; he kept me at a great distance. This is the opposite: there is no surface, just interpretations, and we are already inside from the get-go. Way inside, like Effingham sinking in the swamp.

(That's the one thing I didn't quite believe: why didn't that sinking change him more?)

And that makes no sense, but you see, that's the crux of the matter: we are both neo-touchy-feely-ists. The most important sense is intuitive sense.

(I like this very much, but am gently suggesting that I can't tell if it's a good book by any objective measure. But then, I don't suppose it has to be.)

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This book is perfectly named, after the Unicorn - a mythical creature symbolizing deep spiritual and philosophical theories; something that makes perfect sense when you feel it but seems too surreal when you try to talk about it. A treat for classic Gothic/horror lovers, although it's not a book for everyone. There are disturbing characters, confused some of them, and they manage to leave a mark at the end. The central character of Hanna seemed to be a misunderstood angel, though at some point

This is the eighth novel I have read by Iris Murdoch. As usual I am reading them in order of publication. I find it hard to believe she did not win the Booker Prize until 1978, for her novel The Sea, The Sea. I have been impressed and entertained by each one I have read so far.The Unicorn is Gothic in feel and setting. It includes her preoccupation with infidelity as well as her philosophic approach to human relationships. A young woman takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, remote and

I ended up in the Iris Murdoch section of the library quite by accident, and her name was so familiar to me but I couldn't think of much of anything about her, so I decided to give one of her books a try. I picked The Unicorn because it was small enough to carry with me back and forth on the train and because the one-sentence synopsis pasted inside the otherwise completely blank cover sounded interesting enough: "A London girl, hired as a companion and tutor, attempts to rescue her mistress who

I couldn't put this one down - read it all Thanksgiving weekend. I'm kicking myself for not picking up Murdoch until now. She's a genius!! Heck, who can deny an author w/ a unifying theme across her works? She's similar to D.H. Lawrence in this respect (or Ayn Rand or Walker Percy); according to a paper I read, Murdoch is a follower of Plato (and a rejector of many Freudian theories), and there are many references to both Plato and Freud in this book. She's especially interested in morality, in

I hadnt borrowed a book for yonks! A friend was reading Iris Murdoch in the school playground while we were waiting for the kids, and when I mentioned I had never read any of her books, she lent me this one. It is an old dog-eared copy: I cannot find the edition in goodreads. It appears she has read it several times: she noted the years on the flyleaf.I remember reading books like this one when I was a teenager. Lots of names come to mind. Marguerite Duras. Milan Kundera. Herman Hesse. Miguel de

Gothic, wandering, full of landscapes of cold moors and bog and sea - so I loved that part. If it wanders too much in the draggy territory of simple philosophy and occasionally slips waist deep into melodrama, well, that's part of the fun of it too.

The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch (1963)Everyone here is involved in guilt.The Unicorn is the first novel by Iris Murdoch that I have read. The narrative weaves in elements of the Gothic, the allegorical, and the mythical, and it does so within the framework of suspense. Theres a lot going on in this novel, and by the end, Murdoch leaves it up to the reader to determine what it all means. Some readers will be frustrated by Murdochs ambiguity and that the meaning of the story is open to a wide variety