num_pages: 205
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: Honor Klein, Rosemary Lynch-Gibbons Michelis, Alexander Lynch-Gibbon, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, Bill Michelis, Miss Seelhaft, Miss Hernslow, Mr., Mytten, Georgie Hands, Palmer Anderson, Emmanuel Klein, Antonia Lynch-Gibbon
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Irish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 5517
places: London, England
publisher: Penguin Books