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  • Malone Dies

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    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 naked in his bed, scrawling bitter observations in an exercise book. He is fed on a bed-table, his chamber pot is emptied, he hooks items with his stick, he looks out of the window. He tells the story of a man, looked after ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    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 stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Malone Dies

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    '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: without mellowness, without elegiacs; wittier, jauntier, and capable of wilder rages than Molloy.The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    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 plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall plumbs ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • How It Is

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, How It Is is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Told from within, from the dark, the story is tirelessly and intimately explicit about the feelings that pervade ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Molloy

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    The first of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate , reissued for a new generation.I am still alive then. That may come in useful.Molloy, a sordid, bedridden vagrant, recalls a long bicycle ride in search of his mother. He describes sucking on stones, falling in love, getting arrested, killing a dog. Moran, a private detective, sets out to look for Molloy. But as Moran's ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mercier and Camier

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett's first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier was finally published in 1970, and in Beckett's English translation four years later.The eponymous heroes tramp around a city, then out of it, then back again. They are aimless, but ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Endgame and Act Without Words

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 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 work. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Unnamable

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I can't go on, I'll go on.Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him.Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original and important play of its length ever written.' (Roy Walker)The present volume brings together Krapp's Last Tape and Beckett's other shorter ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Three Novels

    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    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 have been rendered into English by the author.The first ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Waiting for Godot

    A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955.'Go and see Waiting for Godot. At the worst you will ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD