The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978. The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.

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The 182nd greatest fiction book of all time

This book is on the following lists:

1. - 31st on The 100 Best Books of World Literature (ABC.es)
2. - 61st on The 100 Greatest British Novels (BBC)
3. - 83rd on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
4. - 98th on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
5. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
6. - Man Booker Prize (Man Booker Prize)
7. - The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 (Flavor Wire)
8. - How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Reading List (Thomas C. Foster)

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series	Paperback	1271345	$14.71	$15.33	2019
	The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)	Kindle Edition	691289			2001
	The Sea, The Sea	Paperback	1133145	$10.58	$0.74
	The Sea, The Sea (Vintage Booker)	Kindle Edition	48454	$7.03		2008
	The Sea, the Sea	Paperback	364020	$11.97	$0.01	1980
	The Sea, the Sea	Hardcover	1983748	$139.30	$14.63	1978
	El mar, el mar (Spanish Edition)	Kindle Edition	1372794			2011
	Sea the Sea	Paperback	2560244	$109.10	$0.01	1980
	El mar, el mar [The Sea, the Sea]	Audible Audiobook	127785	$20.67		2022
	El mar, el mar / The Sea, the Sea (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1912806	$18.69	$19.46	2020
	Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, a Severed Head & Something Special: A BBC Radio Collection	Audible Audiobook	138161	$24.81		2020
	The Sea, the Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series	Audible Audiobook	204122	$24.81		2019
	El Mar, El Mar/ the Sea, the Sea (Contemporanea / Contemporary) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	8556296	$11.58		2006
	Sea, the Sea	Hardcover	3284789	$163.03	$7.69	1978
	El mar, el mar / The sea, the sea (Bibl.I.Mur) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	12622987	$32.95	$30.66	2004
	The Sea, the Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)	Paperback	77281	$13.80	$1.49	2001