A Severed Head

Written by Iris Murdoch

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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.

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Goldsboro Books

Hardback · Chatto & Windus · First edition · First printing

First Edition, First Printing

ISBN 9780099285366

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£45.00

UnsignedUK first editionFirst printing

History

First seen· Out of stock · £45.0016 Apr 2026

Last confirmed 15 Jul 2026

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