num_pages: 320
description: An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.Once again Iris Murdoch demonstrates that her gift for compelling narrative, vivid characterization and comic invention are unrivalled. Her story -- of a frustrated, middle-aged and unhappily married schoolmaster who loses his heart completely to a bewitching young artist -- succeeds brilliantly in involving our emotions at every level.
language: English
title: The Sandcastle
titlecomplete: The Sandcastle
genres: Fiction, Ireland, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 1807
publisher: Penguin