The Philosopher's Pupil
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the spa town of Ennistone, where the hot springs bubble beneath the surface, darker currents of obsession, guilt, and power threaten to consume those who dare to seek truth — or run from it. The Philosopher's Pupil chronicles the volatile return of George McCaffrey, a deeply troubled man haunted by his past relationship with the celebrated philosopher John Robert Rozanov, whose homecoming to Ennistone sets off a chain of destructive events that implicates an entire community in its moral unraveling. Rich with Murdoch's characteristic blend of psychological acuity and metaphysical wit, the novel presents a sprawling cast of characters — lovers, intellectuals, schemers, and dreamers — all caught in the gravitational pull of one enigmatic thinker. Murdoch constructs her fictional world with the precision of a philosopher and the passion of a novelist, weaving questions of free will, moral responsibility, and the nature of goodness into a compulsively readable narrative. Described by A. N. Wilson as the most daring and original of all her novels, The Philosopher's Pupil stands as one of the boldest achievements in Murdoch's vast literary canon — a work that seduces the reader with its surface drama while quietly dismantling every comfortable assumption about how we live and why. What does it mean to be truly known by another person, and can such knowledge ever be anything other than dangerous?
Author: Iris Murdoch
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the spa town of Ennistone, where the hot springs bubble beneath the surface, darker currents of obsession, guilt, and power threaten to consume those who dare to seek truth — or run from it. The Philosopher's Pupil chronicles the volatile return of George McCaffrey, a deeply troubled man haunted by his past relationship with the celebrated philosopher John Robert Rozanov, whose homecoming to Ennistone sets off a chain of destructive events that implicates an entire community in its moral unraveling. Rich with Murdoch's characteristic blend of psychological acuity and metaphysical wit, the novel presents a sprawling cast of characters — lovers, intellectuals, schemers, and dreamers — all caught in the gravitational pull of one enigmatic thinker. Murdoch constructs her fictional world with the precision of a philosopher and the passion of a novelist, weaving questions of free will, moral responsibility, and the nature of goodness into a compulsively readable narrative. Described by A. N. Wilson as the most daring and original of all her novels, The Philosopher's Pupil stands as one of the boldest achievements in Murdoch's vast literary canon — a work that seduces the reader with its surface drama while quietly dismantling every comfortable assumption about how we live and why. What does it mean to be truly known by another person, and can such knowledge ever be anything other than dangerous?