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The Book and the Brotherhood Paperback - 1989
by Iris Murdoch
Years ago, a group of friends bonded together to finance a political and philosophical book to be written by one of them. Now, amidst a midsummer ball at Oxford, a crisis occurs, and the vindictive ghosts of the past invade the present.
Summary
A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.
Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.
Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.
Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.
Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.
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- Title The Book and the Brotherhood
- Author Iris Murdoch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 624
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1989-01-01
- ISBN 9780140104707 / 0140104704
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 7.71 x 5.02 x 1.12 in (19.58 x 12.75 x 2.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, England - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88021894
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 11/11/1988, Page 0
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