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The Bell
The Bell
Author: Iris Murdoch
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140016888
ISBN-10: 0140016880
Publication Date: 1/6/1987
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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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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