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

The Bell

Iris Murdoch

Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 5959 Users | 496 Reviews

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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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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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whenever i pick up an iris murdoch novel, it seems initially that i am embarking on a tale with conventional romance trappings, and then, very quickly, there is a moment of unease, and i begin to understand that she has lured me away from the safe harbour where her story begins, and that the universe her characters inhabit might be familiar to me but that i am not conversant with its rules. the bell was no exception: at first it seemed that the primary story would be that of dora, the desultory

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.

The main character is Dora, a ditz, but you gotta love her for her good heart. She captures a butterfly from the floor of the subway so it doesnt get stepped on but then has no idea what do with it. She wears high heels for a walk in muddy woods and then loses her shoes. She forgets her bag at the railway station. She has to take a long bus ride into town to retrieve it, takes the bus back home, forgetting the bag again in a pub. Shes an aspiring artist who is lazy and shows no signs of talent.

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This was the first Iris Murdoch novel I read, many years ago now, and straight away I was hooked. For months afterwards I was obsessed with her books, and read them one after the other. Her appeal is both simple and complex. Murdoch is a great storyteller, a brilliant inventor of plots. Typically, her stories start out like realistic novels of English life, only to become increasingly bizarre, with outrageous entanglements of relationship and motive, recognitions, reversals, melodramatic

Iris Murdoch's fourth novel shows a strengthening of fictional power while continuing her philosophical inspection of human character. I love the opening lines: "Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason." Dora is one of the two main characters and represents the amoral personality. She is a fairly young woman, married to an older man. While living mainly on nerves and feelings, she has a horror of any sort

The Bell of the Unquenchable SelfI don't usually find a full and distinct voice in the books of acclaimed female writers. Blessed with luck, I encountered Iris Murdoch. Ms. Murdoch's writing style is clean and simple, and she is able to make complicated plot easy to follow. The content is not intentionally dense and the language not splendid, but she fascinates me with the eccentric and messy personalities that she portrays; gradually, I find myself full of solicitude for those fictional