Samuel Beckett
Letters Of Samuel Beckett: Vol 2
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Cambridge Univ Pres
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 out... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For Godot
$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.'
This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterise
the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de
Babylone in 1953. He went on to pr... Buy or find out more →
Krapps Last Tape And Other Shorter Plays 1936 1982
$29.99 – Paperback book / Faber
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 page... Buy or find out more →
Murphy
$24.99 – Paperback book / Faber
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... Buy or find out more →
Happy Days
$27.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present. Buy or find out more →
Molloy
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L'... Buy or find out more →
First Love And Other Novellas
$17.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. R... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poems 1930 1988
$32.99 – Paperback book / Faber
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 lif... Buy or find out more →
More Pricks Than Kicks
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
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. Th... Buy or find out more →
Unnameable
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
The Unnamable ndash; so named because he knows not who he may be ndash; is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop speaking a... Buy or find out more →
Mercier And Camier
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Becketts first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier w... Buy or find out more →
Waiting For Godot
$24.99 – Paperback book / Faber
Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the ThÉÂtre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to pre... Buy or find out more →
Texts For Nothing And Other Shorter Prose 1950 1976
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/Firs... Buy or find out more →
The Expelled
$5.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'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 w... Buy or find out more →
Complete Short Prose Of Samuel Beckett
$24.95 – Paperback book / Grove Press
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that hav... Buy or find out more →