More Pricks Than Kicks

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198376
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Pricks Than Kicks written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah. Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Beckett’s mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Beckett’s underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571358063
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream of Fair to Middling Women written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's first 'literary landmark' ( St Petersburg Times) is a wonderfully savoury introduction to the Nobel Prize-winning author. Written in 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old Beckett was struggling to make ends meet, the novel offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. When submitted to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous or too risky; it was only published posthumously in 1992. As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' ( New Yorker). Youthfully exuberant and Joycean in tone, Dream is a work of extraordinary virtuosity.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780802198365
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murphy written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett’s work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

Author : Lawrence Graver
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415159547
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Lawrence Graver and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish dramatist and poet. His use of the stage and dramatic narrative and symbolism has revolutionalized drama in England.

Author : John Pilling
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441159479
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's 'More Pricks Than Kicks' written by John Pilling and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of Samuel Beckett's first published book of fiction.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571354637
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante and the Lobster written by Samuel Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all.It is not.'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks. Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with linguistic texture and allusion that Beckett later shed. The book baffled many critics and sold so few copies that several batches were pulped.Decades later, this story was hailed as the Nobel Prize-winner's earliest important work.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852900151
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Pricks Than Kicks written by Samuel Beckett and published by Isis Large Print Books. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's anti-hero, in these ten short stories, is Belacqua, a Dublin student and philanderer

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219835X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watt written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 influential writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802150660
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How it is written by Samuel Beckett and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work relates the adventures of an unnamed narrator crawling through the mud while dragging a sack of canned food. It is written as a sequence of unpunctuated paragraphs divided into three sections.

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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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