# A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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- Authors: [Iris Murdoch](https://www.bookquiver.com/iris-murdoch)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-617-7
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2001-03-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought...