Book cover for The Bell

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First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell, but then the old one is rediscovered.
  • ISBN10 0670155926
  • ISBN13 9780670155927
  • Publish Date 1 January 1958
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 February 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Viking Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English