Collected Poems in English and French (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Collected Poems in English and French (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

One of the most important playwrights and novelists of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett was also an accomplished poet and translator. Collected Poems in English and French is a complete collection of all the poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, including his poetry written originally in

Endgame (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

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

Molloy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

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

Selected Poems 1930-1988 (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

A selection of poems of Samuel Beckett, from 'Whoroscope' (1930) to 'What is the Word'

The Galloping Hour: French Poems (Pizarnik Alejandra)(Paperback)

The Galloping Hour: French Poems--never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime--gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano) wrote in French. Conceived during her Paris sojourn (1960-1964) and in Buenos Aires

Collected Poems in English (Brodsky Joseph)(Paperback)

The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in

Selected Poems and Letters (Rimbaud Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

The poems and letters of one of France's most unusual modern poets, here in both French and English Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in

Collected Poems in English (Kolatkar Arun)(Paperback)

Arun Kolatkar was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically in both Marathi and English, but did not publish a book of poems until he was 44. Jejuri (1976) won him the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. His third Marathi publication, Bhijki Vahi, won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004

Watt (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism (Wimbush Andy)(Paperback)

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an 'abject self-referring quietism'. Andy Wimbush argues that 'quietism'--a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness--is a key to understanding Beckett's artistic

Samuel Beckett: Faber Critical Guide (Fletcher John)(Paperback / softback)

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theater? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to his plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett's major work

Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Professor Knowlson writes that in these notes 'we see Beckett simplifying, shaping and refining, as he works towards a realization of the play that will

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems (Carroll Lewis)(Paperback)

The collected poems of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland One of the best-known lines in literature--'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe'--comes from Lewis Carroll's poetry, which he wrote throughout his life to amuse himself and to give pleasure to his

Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Features four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett that were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. This edition also includes several short prose texts such as: 'Heard in the Dark' I & II, 'One Evening', 'The Way', and,

Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett - Endgame (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated to echo other motion, posture to echo other posture, gestures to echo other gestures, sounds to echo other

Samuel Beckett - The Middle and Later Years (Cameron David)(Paperback / softback)

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

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 have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge Samuel Taylor)(Pevná vazba)

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean

Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Renowned Beckett scholar Ruby Cohn has selected some of Beckett's criticisms, reviews, letters, and other unpublished materials that shed new light on his

Waiting for Godot (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead,

Poems New and Collected (Szymborska Wislawa)(Paperback)

Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.Described by Robert Hass as 'unquestionably one of the great living European poets' and by Charles Simic as 'one of the finest poets living today,' Szymborska

New Collected Poems (Murray Les)(Paperback / softback)

Born in 1938 in rural New South Wales, Les Murray is the one poet by whom the English language lives. Very little poetry in English is rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational as

Collected Poems (Larkin Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry

New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 (Milosz Czeslaw)(Paperback)

New and Collected Poems: 1931--2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into