The Book and The Brotherhood
by Murdoch, Iris
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. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.
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The Book and the Brotherhood
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Chatto & Windus, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 601 pages. Murdoch's 23rd novel (4th from last). 8vo, pale mauve cloth with gilt lettering on spine, edges age-toned with a few stains, page margins age-toned, light shelf wear, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear and a little soil and rumpling to flaps. Pencil notation on ffep, notes… Read more about this item Item Price
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London; Chatto & Windus, 1987., 1987. Hard Cover. SIGNED SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo, pp. [6], 601, [1]. Publishers' silver grey cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly creased otherwise a clean bright copy, with Sunday Times printed bookplate for the 1987 Booker Prize Shortlist tipped-in to ffep, signed by the Author. Jacket lightly… Read more about this item Item Price
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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Chatto & Windus.* Binding and cover condition: Light grey cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimal age and marks. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a target with script in the foreground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing… Read more about this item Item Price
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Viking, 1988. 1st Edition. Leather_bound. As new. Signed simply "Iris Murdoch" on the first leaf, this deluxe first edition, leather-bound Franklin Mint issue, printed on archival paper, is pristine: gift quality. Laid in, a card in envelope noting that this was presented as a gift at the Aspen Institute, 2002. No dustjacket, as issued. Really a lovely special… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this novel by Irish author, Iris Murdoch. This novel is Murdoch's twenty-third. It is considered to be one of her best works and concerns a group of close friends living in 1980's England. The titular 'book' is a theoretical work… Read more about this item Item Price
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