The Unicorn (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Iris Murdoch
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: A remote region in western Ireland
- Genres: Long fiction, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: Values, 1960’s, Suffering, Philosophy or philosophers, Prisoners, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Violence, Death or dying, Mysteries, Ireland or Irish people, Tutors or tutoring
- Locales: Ireland
Characters Discussed
Hannah Crean-Smith, nominally the mistress of Gaze Castle, a large and forbidding nineteenth century house situated near the black sandstone cliffs of western Ireland’s coastline. Hannah, a lovely golden-haired woman who is no longer young nor yet middle-aged, is restricted to the castle because of an indiscretion that she committed almost nine years before the story begins. Having married Peter Crean-Smith before she was twenty years old, she then had a two-year affair with Philip “Pip” Lejour, a neighbor. After being discovered by Peter, who was...
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