A Severed Head
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1963.
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. Several indentation marks to rear cover. Partial ring mark and light creases to front cover. Some wear to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1963.
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. Several indentation marks to rear cover. Partial ring mark and light creases to front cover. Some wear to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1963.
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. Several indentation marks to rear cover. Partial ring mark and light creases to front cover. Some wear to spine. Usual page tanning for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
