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Selected Poems, 1930-1988 by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Poetry
It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This new selection, from "Whoroscope" (1930) to 'What is the Word' (1988), describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as a poet moreover that Beckett made his first brea ...Show more
TEXTS FOR NOTHING and other shorter prose, 1950—1976 by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
The End by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of ...Show more
The Expelled by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.' Remorseless and unnerving, but leavened with black humour and the brilliance of his writing, Beckett's work is some of the mo ...Show more
The Expelled / The Calmative / The End with First Love by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why he is speaking in the first place, the loss of hear ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956: Volume 2 by Samuel Beckett
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and l ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume I, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld; Lois More Overbeck
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett. | Reading Level: very good
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comp ...Show more
The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett; James Knowlson (Editor)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Professor Knowlson writes that in these notes 'we see Beckett simplifying, shaping and refining, as he works towards a realization of the play that will function w ...Show more
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether.
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En attendant Godot" was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and "Waiting for Godot" op ...Show more
Watt by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. Watt is a beautifully executed black come ...Show more