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Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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. The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Beckett's poetry and verse translations ever to be published, as well as the first critical edition. It establishes a si ...Show more
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
$10.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Beckett's first 'literary landmark' (St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When sub ...Show more
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 nature! You exaggerate. CLOV In the vicinity. H ...Show more
Malloy / Malone Dies / the Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman library
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a cert ...Show more
Selected Poems, 1930-1988 by Samuel Beckett
$38.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
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 lifetime's arc of writing. It was as a poet moreover that Beckett made his first brea ...Show more
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotio ...Show more
The End by Samuel Beckett
$2.99 NZD
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
The Expelled by Samuel Beckett
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'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 with black humour and the brilliance of his writing, Beckett's work is some of the mo ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume I, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld; Lois More Overbeck
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett. | Reading Level: very good
The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comp ...Show more
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
$24.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a cert ...Show more
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Calderbooks Ser. | Reading Level: very good