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The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, it is the story of a circle of Oxford University graduates in 1980s England.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Iris Murdoch. 3.97. 1,029 ratings109 reviews. 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.
Iris Murdoch explores the fragility of relationships. Thirty years is plenty of time for friends to change their opinions. Not least of each other. At a midsummer ball at Oxford a close-knit group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered to dance under the stars.
18 de abr. de 2012 · The book and the brotherhood. by. Iris Murdoch. Publication date. 1989. Topics. College teachers -- Fiction, England -- Fiction. Publisher. Penguin Books.
1 de ene. de 1989 · Iris Murdoch's "The Book and the Brotherhood" is a marvelously droll novel of manners that has the audacity to explore the philosophical and moral issues that have effectively paralyzed a group of `60s-era Oxford graduates.
3 de abr. de 2003 · THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD (edición en inglés) IRIS MURDOCH. ARROW - 9780099433545. Escribe tu opinión. Literatura en inglés. Sinopsis de THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars.
The novels illustrate Murdoch’s conviction that although human beings think they are free to exercise rational control over their lives and behaviour, they are actually at the mercy of the unconscious mind, the determining effects of society at large, and other, more inhuman, forces.
