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The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a theoretical work on Marxism, supposed to have been written by David Crimond, an exile from this circle of friends. After graduating from Oxford University, the protagonists banded together to finance Crimond in writing the book. He never produced it, yet out of a sense of duty this brotherhood continues to pay him a stipend each year.


“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

Iris Murdoch book The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.

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