The Flight from the Enchanter

The Flight from the Enchanter
First edition
Author	Iris Murdoch
Cover artist	Edward Bawden
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Publication date	1956

The Flight from the Enchanter is a novel written by Iris Murdoch and published in 1956.

Plot summary

it is a tale of a group of youngsters caught by the spell of the Polish double-barrelled lead character Mischa Fox - the enchanter. They select him to be their god. But he has an alter ego, the fearsome Calvin Blick who complicates things. Rosa Keepe is torn between the two alter egos, and between common sense and dangerous enchantment. The adventurous Annette drops out of school to learn from real life, but gets in over her head, and Peter can't stop obsessing about an ancient script.^[1]

Principal Characters

Mischa Fox
Rosa Keepe
Hunter Keepe (Rosa's brother)
Annette Cockeyne
Peter Saward
John Rainborough
Calvin Blick (Mischa's right-hand man)

Works by Iris Murdoch

Novels	Under the Net (1954) The Flight from the Enchanter (1956) The Sandcastle (1957) The Bell (1958) A Severed Head (1961) An Unofficial Rose (1962) The Unicorn (1963) The Italian Girl (1964) The Red and the Green (1965) The Time of the Angels (1966) The Nice and the Good (1968) Bruno's Dream (1969) A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) An Accidental Man (1971) The Black Prince (1973) The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) A Word Child (1975) Henry and Cato (1976) The Sea, the Sea (1978) Nuns and Soldiers (1980) The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) The Good Apprentice (1985) The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) The Message to the Planet (1989) The Green Knight (1993) Jackson's Dilemma (1995)

Short stories	"Something Special" (1957)

Plays	A Severed Head (with J. B. Priestley, 1964) The Italian Girl (with James Saunders, 1969) The Three Arrows & the Servants and the Snow (1973) The Servants (1980) Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986) The Black Prince (1987)

Poetry	A Year of Birds (1978, rev. 1984) Poems by Iris Murdoch (1997)

Philosophy	Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) The Sovereignty of Good (1970) The Fire and the Sun (1977) Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) Existentialists and Mystics (1997)

References

↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536119.The_Flight_from_the_Enchanter

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