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The Bell

Iris Murdoch

Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

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Original Title:	The Bell
ISBN:	0141186690 (ISBN13: 9780141186696)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dora Greenfield, Paul Greenfield, Peter Topglass, Toby Gashe, Catherine Fawley, Nick Fawley, James Tayper Pace, Mark Stafford, Margaret Stafford, Patchway, Father Bob Joyce, Sister Ursula, Mother Clare, Noel Spens, Michael Meade
Setting:	Imber Court, Gloucestershire, England(United Kingdom)

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A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of 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 has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.

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Title	:	The Bell
Author	:	Iris Murdoch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	2001 by Penguin (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

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I added this book to my to-read shelf because of this article:https://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...

"There is a story about the bell ringing sometimes in the bottom of the lake, and how if you hear it it portends a death."The Bell is an early philosophical novel by Iris Murdoch, the Irish academic and Oxford professor of Philosophy, who also wrote in total 26 novels. This is her fourth novel, first published in 1958. The first of her novels to be shot through with ethical considerations, The Bell remains the one novel in her entire output where the moral conundrums are the most explicit. Until

Interrupting RoutineI work as tutor and librarian at Blackfriars Hall Oxford, the smallest and most medieval of the University of Oxford colleges and also a Dominican priory. A few years ago Blackfriars acquired a bell to call the friars to prayer. The sound of the bell does indeed create a definite atmosphere in the place; as also does its timing since it rings, like its larger fellow at Christ Church College, according to solar time - about six minutes behind GMT. The midday call to the

Several characters come to a lay community attached to a Benedictine nunnery. It is a place of sanctuary, a bridge between the secular world outside and the closed, contemplative, spiritual convent. Most of the characters are looking for some kind of peace, although not all of them find it. This novel is widely regarded as Murdoch's masterpiece. I have not read all of her books, but this one is excellent.I read this again with a book group. We had an interesting discussion about the book, so

I added this book to my to-read shelf because of this article:https://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...

I love Iris Murdoch. I've come to expect certain things from her novels: one astonishing, humorous transition (here, it comes early, on a train); at least 2 abrupt sexually-centered plot twists that make me exclaim out loud on the subway; a few incredible lines that border on philosophy. Most of all, there's the sense in her novels that anything is possible - as the excellent A.S. Byatt interview puts it, she has the instincts of the 19th century novelist, though she's thoroughly contemporary.

It was just that Dora had then estimated, with a devastating exactness which was usually alien to her, how much of sheer contempt there was in Paul's love; and always would be, she reflected, since she had few illusions about her ability to change herself. It did not occur to her to wonder if Paul might change, or indeed into hope from him anything at all. She felt his contempt as destructive of her, and his love, consequently unwelcome. Yet all the time, in a shy and round about way, she loved