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The Brotherhood is the first book in the Eirensgarth Chronicles, a new fantasy series written by Self-Published Author Philip Smith
The Book and the Brotherhood opens at an Oxford ball in the 1980s where all the main characters and their complicated relationships are introduced. We again have a clique of neurotic academics who had been so in awe of David Crimond's intellect at Oxford that they had clubbed together to support him financially to write a quasi-Marxist politico-philosophical tract.
Ah, it was a happy day in Beaumaris library in 1993 that I came upon this, my first Iris Murdoch novel. The characters in this book actually live in my head - and many of the set-piece scenes too - the opening Commem Ball with music by the appropriately-named band The Treason of the Clerks (puctuated by Gerard's disturbing interview with his old tutor Professor Levquist), Jenkin Riderhood's ...
1 de jan. de 1989 · 内容简介 · · · · · ·. Years ago, a group of friends bonded together to finance a political and philosophical book to be written by one of them. Now, amidst a midsummer ball at Oxford, a crisis occurs, and the vindictive ghosts of the past invade the present. 我来说两句.
They had formed a Gesellschaft (Brotherhood) which had undertaken to finance Crimond while he was writing a book, and continued to do so for years, even though its members no longer shared his views. Their dismay about his presence at the ball, however, was that, some time back, the wife of one of their number had run away with him, though after a while she had returned to her husband.
- Iris Murdoch
3 de abr. de 2003 · ISBN: 9780099433545. Number of pages: 624. Weight: 426 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 mm. Buy The Book And The Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
1 de abr. de 2010 · The Book And The Brotherhood. Kindle Edition. by Iris Murdoch (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.1 64 ratings. See all formats and editions. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist.
- Iris Murdoch
