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  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 22/02/2018

  • ISBN: 9780241338971

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 160mm x 8mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 50g

  • RRP: £1.00

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Samuel Beckett

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'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'

From the master of the absurd, these two stories of an unnamed vagrant contending with decay and death combine bleakness with the blackest of humour.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • Published: 22/02/2018

  • ISBN: 9780241338971

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 160mm x 8mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 50g

  • RRP: £1.00


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About the Author

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, in the late twenties he went to Paris to join the staff of the École Normale Supérieure. He met James Joyce and his first published work was an essay on Joyce's Work in Progress (later Finnegans Wake). After travelling in Germany and undergoing psychotherapy in London, he settled in Paris, where he remained during the Second World War, active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 he elected to use French as his language of literary composition and over the next five years he wrote two plays, four novels, poetry, criticism and four novellas in that language. He was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1969.

Samuel Beckett

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