The Time of the Angels. Book descriptions. Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; . 10 rows · · The complete review's Review. The Time of the Angels is a distinctly philosophical novel, Author: Iris Murdoch. By WALTER ALLEN. THE TIME OF THE ANGELS. By Iris Murdoch. ris Murdoch's novels have become predictable. We are presented with a group of characters knit .
The complete review's Review. The Time of the Angels is a distinctly philosophical novel, Murdoch's contrived scene allowing her to address questions of faith and morality -- in her distinctly unusual fashion. The story has Carel a recently appointed rector of what amounts to a "non-existent church" -- bombed in the war, all that's left of it is a tower; it was a Wren church too (and "he. The Time of the Angels. Book descriptions. Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. THE TIME OF THE ANGELS is not one of Murdoch's best-known novels, but it is one of her best and most disturbing. Concentrated largely in a London rectory for a church bombed to smithereens during the last war, the novel is concerend, appropriately enough, with the ways in which people can act in the absence of God.
The Time of the Angels. Book descriptions. Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. The Time of the Angels: Vintage Classics publicity page Reviews: Commentary; Heaven-Ali's Book. Iris Murdoch writes well. She digs into the human soul and creates striking characters. This novel “Time of the Angels” focuses on a rector who lost his belief and question the good and the bad, to believe, not to believe and wishing to believe, morality and immorality as well as his complicated relationships with other people and incest theme.
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