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Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett 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. The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a si ...Show more
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with li ...Show more
Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When sub ...Show more
Echo's Bones by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
"Echo's Bones" was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, "More Pricks Than Kicks", published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher, but was held back from inclusion in the published volume. "Echo's Bone ...Show more
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, "Endgame" was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM - Clov! CLOV - Yes. HAMM - Nature has forgotten us. CLOV - There's no more nature. HAMM - No more nature! You exaggerate. CLOV In the vicinity. H ...Show more
I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Samuel Beckett Reader by Samuel Beckett; Richard Seaver (ed.)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed l ...Show more
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Krapp's "Last Tape" was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' ...Show more
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than "Molloy". The sound I li ...Show more
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
"Molloy" is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable". The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, ...Show more
More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett's antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. Belacq ...Show more
Murphy by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
Edited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancee Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but h ...Show more