Iris Murdoch      The Black Prince      First published in 1973      To Ernesto de Marchi      Contents Editor's Foreword Bradley Pearson's Foreword Bradley Pearson's Story Part One Part Two Part Three      Postscript by Bradley Pearson      Four Postscripts by Dramatis Personae      Editor's Postscript      Editor's Foreword      I am in more than one way responsible for the work that follows. The author of it, my friend Bradley Pearson, has placed the arrangements for publication in my hands. In this humble mechanical sense it is through my agency that these pages now reach the public. I am also the «dear friend» (and such) who is referred to and at times addressed in the book. I am not however an actor in the drama which Pearson recounts. My friendship with Bradley Pearson...