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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880207
Author:Brigitte Weeks
THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD By Iris Murdoch Viking. 607 pp. $19.95
IRIS MURDOCH has written 23 novels since 1954, leaving behind countryman Charles Dickens with 15 but with little hope yet of catching Anthony Trollope's 47. Her body of work is of their kind-substantial yet accessible, literate yet readable. Like those 19th-century masters, she consistently focuses on small societies and large issues.
In Murdoch's many thousands of pages, men and women do not stray much beyond the well-educated, pleasantly intellectual English middle-class. They drink steadily, often have family retainers, ...
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