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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 ...Show more
Collected Shorter Plays by BECKETT SAMUEL
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated "Krapp's Las ...Show more
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classics | 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
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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
Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
"Happy Days" was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. Winnie: [ ...] Well anyway - this man Shower - or Cooker - no matter - and the woman - hand in hand - in the other hands bags - kind of big brown grips - standing there gaping at me [...] What's sh ...Show more
How It Is by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction
Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, 'How It Is" is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, ...Show more
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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
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
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
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotio ...Show more
The End by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Fiction | 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