{"product_id":"the-book-and-the-brotherhood-isbn-9780140104707","title":"The Book and the Brotherhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA story about love and friendship and Marxism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.\u003cb\u003eIris Murdoch\u003c\/b\u003e (1919–1999) was born in Dublin and brought up in London. She studied philosophy at Cambridge and was a philosophy fellow at St. Anne's College for 20 years. She published her first novel in 1954 and was instantly recognized as a major talent. She went on to publish more than 26 novels, as well as works of philosophy, plays, and poetry.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44865856864485,"sku":"NP9780140104707","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140104707.jpg?v=1767738450","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-book-and-the-brotherhood-isbn-9780140104707","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}