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(0)Samuel Beckett
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1954]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two old tramps wait on a bare stretch of road near a tree for Godot.
This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
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; consisting of: 'Molloy, ' 'Malone Dies, ' and 'The Unnamable.'
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
An anthology of short stories by a poet and dramatist who considered his prose fiction "the important writing." The collection represents the seeds of creation for his later works in which he looked at the tragicomic plight of man. The titles range from Assumption, published in a magazine when Beckett was 23, to Stirrings Still, written when he was 82.
Author
Series
Evergreen black cat book volume BC-78
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
13) Echo's bones
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories, which was his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones," to serve as the final piece. However, he had already killed off several of the characters--including the protagonist, Belacqua--throughout the course of the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead....
14) Happy days
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Happy days tells the story of Winnie, an eternal optimist facing the harsh realities of the world with a smile and impenetrable cheerfulness. Samuel Beckett captures her, in his words, "laughing wild amid severest woe." With aching and audacious humor, Beckett probes humankind's search for meaning and questions the relationships that bind one person to another.
15) Beckett on film
Publisher
[Clarence Pictures]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays."--Container.
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 7, no. 1
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
