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"Something Special" is the only published short story by Iris Murdoch. It first appeared in 1957 in a collection entitled Winter's Tales 3, and after inclusion in anthologies in Japan (1971, 1972), England (1979) and Finland (1990) it was republished separately by Chatto & Windus in 1999.
Yvonne Geary, the 24-year-old daughter of a Dublin shopkeeper, is courted by a young Jewish man, Sam Goldman, who takes her out for the night. After an unpleasant scene at a rowdy public house Sam decides to take Yvonne into his confidence.
[edit] Publication history
- 1957: Winter's Tales 3, pp175-204. Macmillan, London. St Martin's Press, New York.
- 1971: Murdoch, Spark and Bowen, pp1-29. ed. Hisayasu Hirukawa. Eichosha, Tokyo.
- 1972: Modern English Stories, pp286-303. Shueisa, Tokyo.
- 1979: Women Writing: an Anthology, pp1-19. ed. Denys Val Baker. W H Allen, London.
- 1979: Best for Winter: a Selection from 25 Years of Winter's Tales, pp46-59. ed. A D Maclean. Macmillan, London.
- 1990: Something Special: Four Poems and a Story. Eurographica, Helsinki.
- 1999: Something Special. Chatto & Windus, London.
[edit] References
- John Fletcher, Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: a descriptive primary and annotated secondary bibliography. Garland Publishing, New York, 1994.
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Works by Iris Murdoch |
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| Novels: |
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| Short stories: |
"Something Special" (1957)
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| 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)
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| Poetry: |
A Year of Birds (1978, rev. 1984) · Poems by Iris Murdoch (1997)
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| 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)
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