The black prince

407 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2003 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-218011-2
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3 stars (1 review)

Barnes & Noble edition of original 1932 book.

10 editions

reviewed The black prince by Iris Murdoch (Penguin classics)

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3 stars

It was tough going there for a while, with an unsympathetic narrator who was interested only in himself and might well be shading his memoir to paint himself in the best possible light.  He very much put me in mind of Lolita's Humbert Humbert - an unreliable narrator.  And that was before the Roshomon-like postscripts, where the surviving characters each gave their own version of the events, and you're left to pick and choose which 'truth' to believe.

Subjects

  • Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
  • Prisoners -- Fiction
  • Authors -- Fiction
  • Egoism -- Fiction
  • Murder -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction