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All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett
Category: Film & Tv
This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television, and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compac ...Show more
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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 ...Show more
Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
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
Collected Shorter Plays by BECKETT SAMUEL
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the short play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated "Krapp's Las ...Show more
Collected Shorter Plays: Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio, and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, this book presents shorter plays, which demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision.
Collected Works (Volume 1): Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett; Colm Toibin (Introduction by); Paul Auster (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions Ser.
Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Beckett's works. Typographical errors that rema ...Show more
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
Category: Film & Tv
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In "Company" a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. "Ill Seen Ill Said" meditates upon an old woman living out her las ...Show more
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
Category: Fiction | 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
Category: Fiction
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