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A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Severed Head about?
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love, from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, The Sea Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, “this is nothing to do with happiness.” A Severed Head was adapted for a successful stage production in 1963 and was later made into a film starring Claire Bloom, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, and Ian Holm.
Who reads A Severed Head?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Iris Murdoch
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Published
- 1961
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101495391
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (3,166 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Een Afgehouwen Hoofd (2015)
- The sea, the sea : A severed head (2001)
- A Severed Head a Novel (2008)
- A Severed Head (proofread, corrected) (1964)
- A Severed Head: a Novel (1988)
- A Severed Head (1976)
- The Severed Head (1974)
- A Severed Head (1970)
- A Severed Head (1964)
- Une Tete Coupee (folio) (1988)
- A Severed Head : a Play in Three Acts (1961)
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