by Iris Murdoch · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140030341
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«The Nice and the Good» is a literary novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (368 pages, in English).
John Ducane, a Whitehall civil servant, investigates the suicide of a colleague and uncovers a web of blackmail, murder and black magic. The community of Octavian and Kate Gray in Dorset seems to offer him refuge, but latent violence and intrigues surround him. The novel explores love and morality, and the thin line between niceness and goodness.
Originally published in 1968; this edition is from 1978. Nominated for the Booker Prize in 1969.
For readers of twentieth-century British literary fiction and modern classics by Iris Murdoch.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
