The Time of the Angels
by Murdoch, Iris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping, creasing on flaps); blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping, creasing on flaps); blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright, unmarked pages crisp and tightly bound.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Carel's brother, Marcus, is co-guardian of Elizabeth, but his attempts to get closer to the rector are constantly rebuffed.
Synopsis
IRIS MURDOCH was born in Dublin in 1919 of Anglo-Irish parents. She went to Badminton School, Bristol, and read classics at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1948 she returned to Oxford where she became a fellow of St Anne's college. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New Year's Honours List. She died in February 1999.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC51107
- Title
- The Time of the Angels
- Author
- Murdoch, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping, creasing on flaps); blue boards clean, gilt spine titling bright
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 253
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Murdoch
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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