num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Severed Head
titlecomplete: A Severed Head
characters: Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, Palmer Anderson, Mr., Mytten, Emmanuel Klein, Miss Hernslow, Honor Klein, Miss Seelhaft, Bill Michelis, Rosemary Lynch-Gibbons Michelis, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, Alexander Lynch-Gibbon, Georgie Hands
genres: Fiction, Ireland, British Literature, Womens, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5516
places: London, England
publisher: Vintage Classics