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1	Waiting for Godot more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist This volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawrence Graver discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of its originality and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Endgame and ACT Without Words more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions
3	Collected Shorter Plays more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Contains Beckett's less than full-length works for stage, radio and television, in chronological order of composition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy. "Molloy," the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by "Malone Dies" and two years later by "The Unnamable." All three ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces: Includes: All That Fall; Embers; Acts Without Words, I and II; Mimes more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play, Krapp's Last Tape, evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday. The two radio ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40!
6	Murphy more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Beckett's tragicomic first novel (1938) is about a young man trying to earn enough money to get married and support a wife. In the process, he is also searching for himself. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $8.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from $3.92! new only from $27.76! \| first editions
8	En attendant Godot more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from $4.50! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Stories & texts for nothing. more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Three major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Samuel Beckett: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Salman Rushdie (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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 remained uncorrected in the various prior ... see all copies from $10.08! new only from $14.33! \| first editions \| SVS
11	I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Samuel Beckett Reader more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from $4.19! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Happy Days more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, to time past and time present. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Endgame : a play in one act,followed by,act without words:a mime for one player more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Samuel Beckett, Volume 01: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) add to wishlist In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's birth, these volumes bring together nearly every word the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright and critic ever published. see all copies from $9.23! new only from $9.23! \| SVS
15 view cover	Proust and Dialogues more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! new only from $7.95!
16 view cover	The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 more books like this by Samuel Beckett, S E Gontarski (Editor) add to wishlist Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing", the medium in which his ideas were most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete ... see all copies from $5.21! new only from $6.21! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	More pricks than kicks more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett's antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. see all copies from $2.71! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Molloy more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist 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 acclaimed as central to their time and to our ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Watt more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist In prose possessed of the radically stripped-down beauty and ferocious wit that characterize his work, this early novel by Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett recounts the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master. "Watt" is a beautifully executed black comedy that, at its core, is rooted in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Samuel Beckett, Volume 4: Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), J M Coetzee (Introduction by) add to wishlist Described as "one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century" in this book's Introduction by J.M. Coetzee, Samuel Beckett is known for his works of poetry, short fiction, and criticism--now collected in Volume IV of this series. see all copies from $48.28! new only from $48.28! \| first editions
21 view cover	Mercier & Camier more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett's dark humor, "Mercier and Camier" is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes' epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least "did not remove from home, they had that good fortune." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.70! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Samuel Beckett, Volume 3: Dramatic Works more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Edward Albee (Introduction by) add to wishlist Volume III features the dramatic works of the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, translator, and critic. see all copies from $59.93!
23 view cover	En Attendant Waiting for Godot more books like this by Samuel Beckett, S E Gontarski (Introduction by) add to wishlist In honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, this bilingual edition of "Waiting for Godot" features side-by-side text in French and English so readers can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity. see all copies from $14.33! new only from $14.33! \| SVS
24 view cover	James Joyce-Finnegans Wake: A Symposium more books like this by James Joyce, Samuel Beckett (Designer) add to wishlist Joyce spent 17 years of his life writing this monumental novel, in which he attempted to portray the dreams, nightmares, and fantasies experienced by a sleeping man, the Dublin publican Humphrey C. Earwicker, and his family--dreams that encompass the entire history of the world. The novel's circular structure (its first half-sentence completes the ... see all copies from $6.93! new only from $12.67! \| SVS
25 view cover	How it is more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist "It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life "is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing"; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive reader who journeys through How It Is will leave the book convinced that Beckett says more that is ... see all copies from $4.93! new only from $7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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