The bell

Author(s)

• Murdoch, Iris

Bibliographic Information

The bell

Iris Murdoch ; with an introduction by A.S. Byatt

（Vintage classics）

Vintage Books, 2004

Note

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1973

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved whatever that may mean... Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.

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Details

• NCID: BB23565596
• ISBN:
  • 9780099470489
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 329 p.
• Size: 20cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 823.914
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Church bells -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Communal living
  • LCSH : Gay men -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Gloucestershire (England) -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Good and evil
  • LCSH : Married women -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Religious communities -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Religious communities -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12719588