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This is extremely entertaining. "La lettre ruined everything"! Now I must read The Black Prince, but I also want to read The Burning Lotus.

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Thank you so much! To read The Burning Lotus, you'd have to write it!

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Just acquired my very first Iris Murdoch novel, inspired by this and you!

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All that I can ask for! Which one did you get? Would love to hear your thoughts.

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The Green Knight! Found in a secondhand bookshop, to which I will have to return because there were others. Would you recommend that one rather begin with the first novel?

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I've yet to pick up the The Green Knight myself! I've been rather haphazard in my reading of the novels: I've not read her first, Under the Net, either. The most famous of her earlier novels, The Bell, is definitely a good place to start. But it seems everyone who loves Murdoch has their own favourites, so it's really for you to discover!

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