First Love and Other Novellas (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

First Love and Other Novellas (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Includes the novellas 'First Love', 'The Calamative', 'The End' and 'The

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

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

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. Box - [Pause.] - three, spool - [Pause.] -

Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill.Edited by Christopher

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

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

More Pricks Than Kicks (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world

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

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

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

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

Molloy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

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'Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally

Profil d'une oeuvre - En attendant Godot (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

Murphy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy's world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett's prose releases characters and readers alike into

Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage, as well for

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

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

Mercier and Camier (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Intangible things, traps in the mind, that voice we hear, the stop-start understanding, the ongoing bewilderment, the fear.' Keith Ridgeway George, said Camier, five sandwiches, four wrapped and one on the side. For the one I eat here will give me the strength to get back with the four others

Malone Dies (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

'Malone', writes Malone, 'is what I am called now.' On his deathbed, and wiling away the time with stories, the octogenarian Malone's account of his condition is intermittent and contradictory, shifting with the vagaries of the passing days: without mellowness, without

Cowboy Graves - Three Novellas (Bolano Roberto)(Paperback / softback)

Found in the author's archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas - a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto

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