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All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett
$25.00 AUD
Category: Plays
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
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
$28.00 AUD
Category: Plays
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
$8.00 AUD
Category: Faber 90 Stories | 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
Echo's Bones by Samuel Beckett
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Echo's Bones" was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, "More Pricks Than Kicks", published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher, but was held back from inclusion in the published volume. "Echo's Bone ...Show more
Echo's Bones by Samuel Beckett
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's "More Pricks Than Kicks," a collection of ten interrelated stories--his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones," to serve as the final piece. However, he'd already killed ...Show more
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than "Molloy". The sound I li ...Show more
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics
"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
The Letters of Samuel Becket vol 4 by Samuel Beckett
$89.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most concentrated works for theatre, plays that include ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957-1965: Volume 3 by Samuel Beckett
$80.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing might emerge. This is the period in which Beckett launches ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956: Volume 2 by Samuel Beckett
$61.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett
This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the war years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's published work. Primarily written in French and l ...Show more
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume I, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld; Lois More Overbeck
$69.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: The Letters of Samuel Beckett.
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
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether.