Product Description: Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes...read more

Product Description: Drawing on private correspondence and little known documents, published and unpublished, Pilling explores every aspect of the More Pricks Than Kicks short story collection. From its publishing history to why they were written, Pilling reveals Beckett's conflicted feelings about the 'compromise' of writing short stories and his struggle to find a voice distinct from James Joyce, his friend and authority of the form...read more

Product Description: HardCover. Pub Date :2012-07-05 Pages: 528 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little reviews of 1930s Paris. and as a poet that he ended his career.The Collected Poems is the most complete edition of Becketts poetry and verse translations ever to be published...read more

Product Description: This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to be written, many details of which have only recently come to light and are often not known to scholars working in the field.

Product Description: This book provides thirteen introductory essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett, paying particular attention to his most famous plays (e.g. Waiting for Godot and Endgame) and his prose fictions (e.g. the "trilogy" and Murphy)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work provides biographical, historical, and literary support for readers approaching the works of poets in Europe from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.