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Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in 2 Acts
by Samuel Beckett
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Endgame / Act Without Words
by Samuel Beckett
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. HAMM - But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! CLOV - Then she hasn't... (more)
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Endgame
by Samuel Beckett
A one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd, commonly considered to be among Beckett's most important works.
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Beckett Trilogy: Book 1
Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
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 understanding of the human experience.
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Beckett Trilogy
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
(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 certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the... (more)
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Watt
by Samuel Beckett
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 powerful and terrifying vision that made Beckett one of the most... (more)
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Krapp's Last Tape
and Other Dramatic Pieces
by Samuel Beckett
In the first of these two plays, an old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39. In the second, a man walking along the seashore recalls his dead father while other familiar voices speak to him from the past.
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Nohow on : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho 4 Books in One (4 Books in One)
by Samuel Beckett
Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the dark" and speaks to him. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects,... (more)
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Genesis
by Bernard Beckett
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic. Anax thinks she knows her history. She’d better. She’s now facing three Examiners, and her grueling all-day Examination has just begun. If she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that... (more)
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Murphy
by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett's first novel (his only prior to World War II), published in 1938, recounts the hilarous but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to reconcile the life of the body with the life of the mind.
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How It Is
by Samuel Beckett
“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 relevant to experience in our time than Shakespeare does in Macbeth. It... (more)
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Samuel Beckett
by Deirdre Bair, Denise Stagnara
Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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First Love (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Samuel Beckett
This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes... (more)
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Worstward Ho
by Samuel Beckett
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All Strange Away (Calderbooks)
by Samuel Beckett
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Eleutheria
by Samuel Beckett
A young man at odds with his middle-class family, refusing to take part in "normal" life while accepting hand-outs from his mother, is the subject of this play. Unperformed during Beckett's lifetime, it draws on the traditions of French boulevard comedy and melodrama.
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For to End Yet Again
by Samuel Beckett
Text: English, French (translation)
The Unnameable
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The Unnameable
Eh Joe and Other WritingsSamuel BECKETT
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Eh Joe and Other Writings
by Samuel BECKETT
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AS THE STORY WAS TOLD.
by Samuel Beckett