In part one of an extended interview, Man Booker Prize–winning author Iris Murdoch discusses the differences between writing literature and philosophy. Two of her most celebrated novels, A Severed Head (Chatto & Windus, 1961) and The Sea, the Sea (Chatto & Windus, 1978), have just been rereleased in a combined hardcover edition by Everyman's Library.
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