Murdoch Iris

Murdoch Iris - The Sandcastle (Sandcastle), 1975, M., Enlightenment, paperback, with b/w drawings, p.: 216, format: 199 x 125 mm, circulation: 100,000 copies. Condition: excellent! (I keep the filmed and slightly deformed copy for myself).

A middle-aged teacher falls passionately in love with a young artist who has come to a small English town to paint a portrait of a former headmaster. But the teacher in love has a domineering wife and two children who do not want to part with him. And for the young artist, not love at all, but her art is in the foreground of life. As always in Murdoch's new novel, drama, humor and a premonition of impending disaster are combined, dangerous depths of human passions are revealed.

William More is a middle-aged man who is disillusioned in life and unhappy in marriage. He teaches Latin and history at St Bride's in the sleepy English outback. Love for the young artist Rain Carter is like a bolt from the blue for him. The hero is at a loss, the hero does not know what other surprises fate will bring him in a day, in an hour, in a minute ...

Reading book for 3rd year students of pedagogical institutes (in English)