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What is The Bell, a Novel about?
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 is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- Publisher
- New York, Viking Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
- The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (2001)
- La Campana/The Bell (2002)
- The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) (2001)
- The Bell (proofread, toc) (2001)
- The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1958)
- The Bell (Vintage Classics) (2004)
- The Bell (Vintage Classics) (2001)
- The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (2010)
- The Bell (Penguin Books. no. 1688.) (2000)
- The bell (1985)
- The Bell (Vintage Classics) (2007)
- Cloches (Folio) (1961)
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