A Severed Head 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

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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Free Read [Historical Fiction Book] ☆ A Severed Head - by Iris Murdoch ↠
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Title: Free Read [Historical Fiction Book] ☆ A Severed Head - by Iris Murdoch ↠
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About " Iris Murdoch "
Iris Murdoch
Dame Jean Iris MurdochIrish born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her own original and created world the world she must have glimpsed as she considered and planned her first steps in the art of fiction John Bayley in Elegy for Iris, 1998 enpedia wiki Iris_Mur