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Beckett Trilogy
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(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... read more
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Molloy
by Samuel Beckett (Author)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...
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Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett (Author)'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:...
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Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett (Author)The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket's trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is...
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I am in my mother's room.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Beckett Trilogy. (standard series)
This is book 40 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Tin Drum, and followed by Pride and Prejudice.
This is book 6 of 100 in 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Sound and the Fury, and followed by The Making of Americans.
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- Dewey: 843.914
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