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In one fell swoop, Iris Murdoch, the most nominated and most speculative winner in the history of the Booker Prize, has three masterpieces of her early, middle and late novels: "The Collected Works of Iris Murdoch" contains the three novels "The Single Horn" published by Iris Murdoch, the most important female novelist in Britain in the 20th century, from 1963 to 1978. "The Beast", "The Black Prince" and "The Sea, The Sea" condense the author's different styles in the early, middle and late periods. From Sartrean-style confinement philosophical novels to Shakespeare-style social satirical comedies, Murdoch comprehensively surpassed the novel mode of the first half of the 20th century, enough to rank her among Dostoyevsky and Proust. "The West" Harold Bloom, the author of "Canon" once commented: "Murdoch's novels announced the end of the post-Joyceian era represented by Samuel Beckett and the post-Faulkner era represented by Thomas Pynchon." Murdoch was selected into the "Western Canon" and was rated as "the greatest since 1945" by The Times The 12th British writer, the first person to introduce Sartrean philosophical novels into the British literary world, known as the "smartest woman in Britain"; the first British writer senior whom Kazuo Ishiguro paid tribute in his Nobel Prize speech, Sontag's mentor at Oxford University, Canetti's jealous lover, and the source of inspiration for A. S. Byatt. Highly recommended by Taiwanese novelist Luo Yijun, it is a perfect combination of intellectual games and story art, witnessing another version of "Confinement", "Lolita" and "The Tempest".

"The Smartest Woman in Britain" is the early masterpiece of Alice Murdoch, the most nominated writer for the Booker Prize. It has a gloomy and unique style, full of mysterious imagination and existential philosophy. A kaleidoscope of ever-changing sexual relationships, a beautiful young woman imprisoned for seven years, an evil husband who pursues the same sex, a cowardly and voyeuristic old lover... Everyone in this book is involved in sin, and everyone is waiting for the final judgment to come. "The Unicorn" ostensibly tells a sophisticated, mysterious gothic romance. The protagonist Hannah was first a vicious adulteress who committed adultery with others and pushed her husband off a cliff. Then she transformed into Jesus Christ, who carries the imagination of countless people, has no desires and desires, is willing to bear all sins, and is willing to sacrifice his life for the world to atone for their sins. And when the savior suddenly turned into a real individual because of her husband's imminent return, an evil woman who committed adultery and tried to murder her husband, the spiritual castle in the air created by her and everyone's imagination about her collapsed instantly... The whole book has twists and turns, vivid and even romantic and mysterious stories, and is also enveloped in a religious and philosophical atmosphere where everything is unpredictable and everyone is absurd, which is both fascinating and thought-provoking.