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  The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Iris Murdoch, Introduction by A S Byatt

  

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  Short Description for The BellA lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved...
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 01 December 2001
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780141186696 ISBN 10: 0141186690
  • Sales rank: 227,130

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Full description for The Bell

• A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil.