A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century British Literature Ireland Womens

Written by Iris Murdoch
Read by Derek Jacobi
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

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.

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
Release date: 07 July 2011