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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. From the flight of the Earls in 1603 to the establishment of...

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...

Author: J.C. BeckettBinding: PaperbackPublished: Faber., 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Markings to bottom-edge of pages, tanning and foxing to pages, minor staining to cover,...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most incisive works of literary criticism to emerge from the twentieth century, Vivian Mercier...

Beckett criticism is well known for its use of impenetrable jargon in describing the themes in his famous novels, poems and especially his seminal plays Waiting for Godot and Endgame....

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series...

One Night To Sydney Wedding - JC Harroway From no-strings to convenient rings! Arriving in Sydney, English doctor Gigi Lane has left her broken engagement, her best friend's betrayal, and...

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterise the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre...

These four stories were originally written in French in 1946, to be translated by Beckett and appear in English from 1954 to 1973. Beckett spoke of the teller of these...

Author: Chris BeckettFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 279g, 400 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2017Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats - five abreast with men in metal...

Author: Simon Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A MISSING CHILD Ten years ago, the disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A GRUESOME...

Author: Samuel BeckettBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, London , 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA seminal work of absurdist theater, Endgame presents a stark, darkly humorous...

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

One Night To Sydney Wedding - JC Harroway From no-strings to convenient rings! Arriving in Sydney, English doctor Gigi Lane has left her broken engagement, her best friend's betrayal, and...

The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the...

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...

Author: Samuel BeckettBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, London , 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerHappy Days by Samuel Beckett is a seminal work of absurdist theater,...

Author: Samuel BeckettBinding: HardbackPublished: Grove Press, 1977Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsEnds and Odds is a collection of eight short plays by Samuel Beckett, showcasing his signature...

Author: Chris Beckett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to...

The second of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate , reissued for a new generation. Nothing is more real than nothing. Malone, a decrepit old man, lies...

Author: J. C. Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. A...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grey, tragicomic world of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy chronicles the misadventures of an idle,...

Author: J. C. Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. A...

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Prof. Barlow's fine biography, based on the original sources and informed by the most recent scholarship, provides a compeling interpretation of the life of Becket- worldly courtier, zealous prelate and...

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Author: Anne DugganBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1980Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book delves into the textual history of Thomas Becket's letters, offering a detailed examination of...

The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket. The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of...

Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied...

Author: Mal Peet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed...

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope...

A mysterious labyrinth. A desperate king. A rebellious princess. Being stuck in a crumbling old villa in Crete with her annoying, history-obsessed little brother Remy isn't exactly Netta's idea of...