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Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Gift Books | 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
Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Poetry and Drama
"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
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 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
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Poetry and Drama
'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 Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Classics | 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
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