CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE - Iris Murdoch (Dublin, 1919 - Oxfordshire, 1999) - Autograph
Lot 175 · December 2023 - Autographs, Letters & Historical Documents · 05 December 2023
Estimate: £300 - £350
Iris Murdoch (Dublin, 1919 - Oxfordshire, 1999)Autograph letter signed, not dated (but postmarked 18 May 199…) by an extremely prolific British novelist, whose works focused mainly on human relationships, morality and the power of the unconscious. Her novel "The Sea, the Sea" (1978) won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1978. To Patricia Craig, the author expresses her regrets at not being able to send Mr. Pieraccini the poems she had promised: "I hoped to send Mr. Pieraccini one or two poems, but though I have many books of unfinished verses I am afraid I have not been able to dig up anything worthy!". 1 p., with the author's address at the head