 First edition cover | |
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Tom Phillips[1] |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 601pp |
| ISBN | 0-7011-3251-5 |
| OCLC | 16087541 |
| 823/.914 19 | |
| LC Class | PR6063.U7 B66 1987 |
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, it is the story of a circle of Oxford University graduates in 1980s England. The eponymous book is a theoretical work on Marxism which is to be written by a member of the group. After graduating from university the friends had agreed to finance the writing of this book as 'brotherhood' but grow uneasy as no written work is in sight and the stipend continues to be paid.
- ^ Fletcher, John; Cheryl Browning Bove (1994). Iris Murdoch: a descriptive primary and annotated secondary bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 0824089103.