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When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence?

Уильям Мор - разочарованный в жизни и несчастливый в супружестве мужчина средних лет - преподает латынь и историю в школе Святого Брайда в сонной английской глубинке. Для него любовь к молодой художнице Рейн Картер подобна грому среди ясного неба. Он в растерянности, он не знает, какие еще сюрпризы преподнесет судьба через сутки, через час, через минуту…

Уильям Мор — разочарованный в жизни и несчастливый в супружестве мужчина средних лет. Он преподает латынь и историю в школе Святого Брайда в сонной английской глубинке. Любовь к молодой художнице Рейн Картер подобна для него грому среди ясного неба. Герой в растерянности, герой не знает, какие еще сюрпризы преподнесет ему судьба через сутки, через час, через минуту...

Немолодой учитель страстно влюбляется в юную художницу, приехавшую в небольшой английский городок, чтобы написать портрет бывшего директора школы. Но у влюбленного учителя есть властная и не желающая с ним расставаться жена и двое детей. А для юной художницы вовсе не любовь, а ее искусство стоит на первом жизненном плане. Как всегда в новом романе Мердок соединяются драматизм, юмор и предчувствие надвигающейся беды, вскрываются опасные глубины человеческих страстей.

The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Моr and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the Headmaster. Моr, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt; magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself enchanted, advises Моr to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a "great love" be purchased at too high a price?

The Sandcastle is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1957. It is the story of a middle-aged schoolmaster (Mor) with political ambitions who meets a young painter (Rain), come to paint the Headmaster's (Demoyte) portrait.

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.

The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Моr and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the Headmaster. Моr, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt; magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself enchanted, advises Моr to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a "great love" be purchased at too high a price?

'Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century.' Peter Conradi, The GuardianThe quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself enchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a 'great love' be…

A middle-aged, married schoolmaster falls violently in love with a young woman artist who has been commisioned to paint a portrait of the school's last headmaster, and the situation is complicated by his dominating yet pathetic wife, his two adolescent children, his political ambitions, and the girl's own vocation as an artist. The Sandcastle is at the same time an advanced study of passion and guilt, an essay in comic invention, and, as the tension mounts, an awsome and sometimes unbearable suspense story. When it was first published in 1957, Raymond Mortimer wrote of Irish Murdoch in the Sunday Times, that 'of all the novelists that have…

The Sandcastle is Iris Murdoch's third novel, and stands somewhat apart from her others. The setting is St. Bride's, described as a sound and reputable public school of the second class. The senior master, Bill Mor, is writing a work on the nature of political concepts. He is one of those dangerously good men dedicated to the truth. His wife, Nan, has a more sceptical nature, but she too is dedicated to an abstraction - the idea of marriage. They have two adolescent children. There are tensions, but everything is in control until Rain Carter, a young artist, appears on the scene. Her presence has an electrifying and disastrous…

Айрис Мердок – известнейшая британская писательница, обладательница Букеровской премии, автор известных книг «Колокол», «Под сетью» и «Бегство от волшебника»! «Замок на песке» (1957) Жизнь Уильяма Мора, школьного учителя истории в маленьком сонном городке, мало чем отличается от жизни его соседей: стабильная работа, семья, двое детей. Но все меняется, когда в город приезжает яркая и остроумная художница Рейн Картер… Любовь к молодой женщине рушит привычный уклад жизни Уильяма как песочный замок. Но что, по сути, страшнее – оставить семью или не попытаться изменить жизнь, в которой нет места любви и чувству?