Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989

Waiting for Godot; tragicomedy in 2 acts by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
783 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 35 languages and held by 4,713 libraries worldwide
Two old tramps wait on a bare stretch of road near a tree for Godot.

Endgame, a play in one act, followed by Act without words, a mime for one player by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
387 editions published between 1900 and 2010 in 24 languages and held by 2,883 libraries worldwide
Contains the text to two of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett's greatest works, a single-act play and a single-person mime sketch.

Molloy by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
281 editions published between 1951 and 2009 in 25 languages and held by 2,263 libraries worldwide
Mysteriously imprisoned, Molloy disappears while looking for his mother; a dying man looks back on his life; and, a nameless individual ponders his existence.

Happy days : the production notebook of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
313 editions published between 1961 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 2,259 libraries worldwide
"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.

Murphy by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
197 editions published between 1934 and 2010 in 18 languages and held by 2,009 libraries worldwide
A poor Irishman, seeking his own identity, drifts through worsening stages of despair until his final disintegration.

How it is by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
120 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in 16 languages and held by 1,867 libraries worldwide
Original holograph notebooks (2 v.); first corrected typescript; final corrected typescript (94 leaves); corrected galley proofs, signed; corrected page proofs (New York, Feb. 1964); corrected page proofs (London, Mar. 1964); advance unbound signatures (London, Mar. 1964), "author's marked set."

Stories & texts for nothing by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
85 editions published between 1955 and 2006 in 8 languages and held by 1,752 libraries worldwide
Three short stories and thirteen vignettes by 1969 Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer. Originally published in French in 1958 and later translated by the author.

Krapp's last tape, and other dramatic pieces by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
15 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in English and held by 1,739 libraries worldwide
In 'Krapp's Last Tape', our protagonist Krapp, now in his late 60s, plays back tapes that he has recorded on previous birthdays. Every year this task becomes a more and more onerous one, and every year he is more and more embarassed by "that stupid b**tard I took myself for thirty years ago". The pain of reconstructing the past is a pain that Beckett uses to dolourous effect throughout his prose and dramatic works and its use is particularly powerful here. --Amazon.com.

Watt by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
139 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in 14 languages and held by 1,728 libraries worldwide
"An account of the grotesque and improbable adventures of a fantastically logical Irish servant and his master, narrated with mordant wit and rooted in Beckett's own terrifying vision of despair"--Cover.

Malone dies by Samuel Beckett ( Book )
175 editions published between 1951 and 2010 in 17 languages and held by 1,599 libraries worldwide
"An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass the time. Saposcat, the Lambert family, Macmann and his nurse Moll. Other figures weave in and out of his vision and his imagination" -- from publisher's web site.