John Bayley — A Trilogy on Iris Murdoch

London, Duckworth, 1998-2001. First edition. Cloth. A charming trilogy from British academic and writer John Bayley on his wife Iris Murdoch. Complete in three volumes. First edition. A collection of works on Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, an Irish and British novelist and philosopher best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Written by her husband, John Oliver Bayley, a British academic, literary critic and writer. Murdoch was portrayed by Kate Winslet and Judi Dench in Richard Eyre's film Iris (2001), based on Bayley's memories of his wife as she developed Alzheimer's disease. This set contains: Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, 1998. Illustrated with sixteen plates of photographs. Collated complete. Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories, 1999. Illustrated with eight plates of photographs. Collated complete. Widower's House: The Last in a Trilogy, 2001. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrappers are very smart with minor wear and light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.