In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man desperate for redemption.
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In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher's old pupil, a demonic man desperate for redemption.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 20x20x20; Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 576 pages, black quarter-cloth. A very good, clean and neat hard cover first edition with minor shelf wear overall, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket, yellowing to the margins, the original price present.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 576 p. Audience: General/trade. Oct 1983 Viking Press hardcover 1st US edition 1st printing with full number line. Light sunning on cover and tanning on flaps, if you go into the spine you can tell the previous owner was a smoker, else fine.
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Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Small crease to front flap. Small crease to jacket crown at front panel. Discrete tear to jacket crown at spine.; 1.9 x 8.4 x 6.1 Inches; 576 pages.
Iris Murdoch's "The Philosopher's Pupil" literally takes us into the depths of a heated public bath while on a metaphysical level it explores some depths of human cruelty. In the principal characters of John Robert and George (the philosopher and the pupil) we meet two of the most patently unlikeable men in the Murdoch canon. Typically, Murdoch develops a level of empathy for each of these self-absorbed characters. It is by pulling us out of the not-so-good-or-bad mainstream of her personality types that Murdoch displays another side of her literary brilliance. These men do not merely have "issues" or flaws; they are grade A sociopaths who wittingly or unwittingly mirror each other. The book's minor flaws include a plethora of minor characters and a ubiquitous and irritatiting first person narrator who intrudes when we need intrusion the least.