Author: Murdoch, Iris
Fiction & related items
Published on 1 January 1900 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 352 pages
197 x 130 x 20 | 258g
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures. Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.