Under the Net
British and Irish novelist, 1919–1999. Won the Costa Novel Award in 1974 and the Booker Prize in 1978.
Under the Net is a 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch.
On 3 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- First published
- 1954
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Philosophical, Picaresque
Is Under the Net worth reading?
3 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 95 | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 90 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Under the Net
The edition we link to is the Vintage Classics paperback (2002), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics (paperback, 2002)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780099429074
How critics and readers rate Under the Net
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 25% of the points available on critics' lists, against 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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