A Severed Head

£5.00

Main Series #2003. Penguin 1st Edition, published 1963.

A Severed Head is a two-hundred page, dialog-rich novel about an anguished love triangle that grows into an anguished love dodecahedron. As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration, violence and suicide - and yet succeeds in making of them a book that is brilliantly enjoyable.

Condition grading: Good Minus. Light creases to right hand covers of front covers. Damage to top edge of rear cover. Minor wear to top of spine.. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Main Series #2003. Penguin 1st Edition, published 1963.

A Severed Head is a two-hundred page, dialog-rich novel about an anguished love triangle that grows into an anguished love dodecahedron. As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration, violence and suicide - and yet succeeds in making of them a book that is brilliantly enjoyable.

Condition grading: Good Minus. Light creases to right hand covers of front covers. Damage to top edge of rear cover. Minor wear to top of spine.. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.