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Books by Samuel Beckett
  | | Murphy by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4445-4, ISBN: 0-8021-4445-4 "Murphy, Samuel Beckettâs first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a striking case of love requitedâ but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he ..." |
 | | Murphy(12th Edition) by Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'brien Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5037-0, ISBN: 0-8021-5037-3 "'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him. " |
 | | Happy Days(Reprint) A Play in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4440-9, ISBN: 0-8021-4440-3 "In "Happy Days," Samuel 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, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, "Happy Days" offers only two characters: Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty. In the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound ..." |
 | | Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces(9th Edition) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4441-6, ISBN: 0-8021-4441-1 "This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday.The two radio plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall plumbs the same pessimistic depths [as Waiting f ..." |
 | | Watt(1st Edition) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4448-5, ISBN: 0-8021-4448-9 "Thus the scene in the music-room, with the two Galls, ceased very soon to signify for Watt a piano tuned, an obscure family and professional relation, an exchange of judgements more or less intelligible, and so on, if indeed it had ever signified such ... He could recall, not indeed with any satisfaction, but as ordinary occasions, the time when his dead father appeared to him in a wood, with his trousers rolled up over his knees a ..." |
 | | Krapp's Last Tape and Embers(Updated) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1998 by Faber & Faber Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-571-06209-6, ISBN: 0-571-06209-1 "In the first of these two plays, an old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39. In the second, a man walking along the seashore recalls his dead father while other familiar voices speak to him from the past." |
 | | Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable(1st Edition) (Everyman's Library) by Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Josipovici Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 1997 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40070-4, ISBN: 0-375-40070-2 "Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from James Joyce, and absorbed everything that myopic maestro had to offer when it came to Anglo-Irish prosody. Still, Beckett's ..." |
 | | How It Is by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5066-0, ISBN: 0-8021-5066-7 "It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing”; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive reader who journeys through How It Is will leave the book convinced that Beckett says more that is relevant to experience in our time than Shakespeare does in Macbeth. It should come as no surpris ..." |
 | | More Pricks Than Kicks(1st Edition) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5137-7, ISBN: 0-8021-5137-X "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.Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts ..." |
 | | Collected Shorter Plays(1st Edition) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5055-4, ISBN: 0-8021-5055-1 "HENRY: [Angrily.] I can't do it any more now! [Pause.] Christ! [Pause.] ADA: Yes , you know what I mean, there are attitudes remain in one's mind for reasons ..." |
 | | Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What Where Three Plays by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 59 Pages, Published 1989 by Grove Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5116-2, ISBN: 0-8021-5116-7 "These three short plays--by the acknowledged master of condensed, 'less is more' language--formed a triple bill performed during the 1983-4 New York theater season to nearly universal critical acclaim." |
 | | Disjecta(1st Edition) Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment by Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn Hardcover, 178 Pages, Published 1984 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-394-53500-5, ISBN: 0-394-53500-6 |
 | | Nine Plays of the Modern Theater(1st Edition) Waiting for Godot; The Visit; Tango; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Balcony; Rhinoceros; American Buffalo, et al by Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Eugene Ionesco, Tom Stoppard, Slawomir Mrozek, David Mamet, Harold Clurman Paperback, 896 Pages, Published 1981 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5032-5, ISBN: 0-8021-5032-2 "This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theatre. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait of the progress and turmoil of the twentieth century. Ranging from the eerie realism of Pinter's sinister "Birthday Party," to the absurd literalism of Ionesco's conformist city in "Rhinoceros," to the baroque fantasy world of Genet's brothel ..." |
 | | Expelled, The, and Other Novellas(Updated) (Modern Classics) by Samuel Beckett, Richard Seaver Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1980 by Penguin Books Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-14-005202-2, ISBN: 0-14-005202-X "This is a collection of short stories by the author of "Waiting for Godot", "Happy End" and "Endgames"." |
 | | Waiting for Godot - Bilingual A Bilingual Edition by Samuel Beckett, S. E. Gontarski Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4463-8, ISBN: 0-8021-4463-2 "From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century. Beckett wrote the play in F ..." |
 | | 1(9th Edition) Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4439-3, ISBN: 0-8021-4439-X "Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating di ..." |
 | | Breath and Other Short Plays by Samuel Beckett Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 1971 by Faber And Faber Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-571-09777-7, ISBN: 0-571-09777-4 |
 | | Malone Dies(Updated) (Modern Classics) by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1970 by Penguin Import ISBN-13: 978-0-14-001691-8, ISBN: 0-14-001691-0 "This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll. Other figures weave in and out of his vision and his imagination. This remarkable soliloquy, so intrinsically Beckettian, is ..." |
 | | Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 1960 by Grove Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-394-17223-1, ISBN: 0-394-17223-X "Krapp sits at his desk with a tape recorder in front of him from which emanates a voice, younger, more robust, but still Krapp, relating how life felt when he was thirty-nine, while the old man records his comments. Krapp is making his last tape.In Embers Henry, walking along the seashore, recalls his dead father, while other familiar voices speak to him from the past." |
 | | Endgame A Play in One Act, Followed by, Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett Paperback, 91 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-5024-0, ISBN: 0-8021-5024-1 "Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating di ..." |
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