Samuel Beckett

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1978
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Unnamable

    The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket's trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without ...

  • Worstward Ho!

    The second last prose text, Worstward Ho, the latter is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation, both previously published as the first two parts of a late trilogy of short ...

  • Disjecta

    “[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”—Stephen Spender, The ...

  • Fizzles

  • All Strange Away

  • How It Is

    “It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life “is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing”; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive ...

  • Molloy

    Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L’Innommable). Few works of ...

  • Rockaby and Other Short Pieces

    We find in Beckett's masterful, exquisite prose, the familiar themes from his earlier works here expressed in the anguished murmurings of the solitary human consciousness....

  • Stories and Texts for Nothing

    This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essent...



  • En Attendant Godot

    Vous me demandez mes ides sur En attendant Godot, dont vous me faites l''''honneur de donner des extraits au Club d''''essai, et en mme temps mes ides sur le thtre.Je n''''ai pas d''''ides sur le thtre. Je n''''y connais rien. Je n''''y vais ...

  • Nohow On

    The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In C...

  • The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

    Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world l...

  • Stirrings Still

  • As the Story Was Told

  • Beckett Shorts

  • First Love

    This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situ...

  • Novels I of Samuel Beckett

    "Edited by Paul Auster, this fourvolume set of Beckett''s canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images cen...

  • Novels II of Samuel Beckett

    Edited by Paul Auster, this four"volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images ce...

  • The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

    Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world l...



  • I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of our time, Samuel Beckett has had a profound impact upon the literary landscape of the twentieth century. In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, ...

  • More Pricks Than Kicks

    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 fir...

  • Collected Shorter Prose, 1945-1988

  • Endgame

    Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, "Endgame" was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957. HAMM - Clov! CLOV - Yes. HAMM - Nature has forgotten us. CLOV - There's no more nature. HAMM - N...

  • Watt

    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...

  • The Expelled

    These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as t...

  • Malone Dies

    This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl of soup comes, his pots are emptied. He waits to die. And while he waits, he constructs stories, mainly to pass...

  • Unnameable

    The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys, Molloys, and Malones...') as diversions from the need to stop speaking altogether. But, as with the other nov...

  • Mercier and Camier

    Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is de...

  • Secret Transfusions



  • Murphy

    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...

  • The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett

  • Dream of Fair to Middling Women

    Samuel Beckett’s first novel and “literary landmark” (St. Petersburg Times), Dream of Fair to Middling Women is a wonderfully savory introduction to the Nobel Prize"winning author. Written in the summer of 1932, when the twenty-six-year-old B...

  • The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Beckett is recognized as one of the pivotal geniuses of modern literature. His literary output included novels, stories, poems, and plays, including Waiting for Godot, widely considered one of existentialism’s founding texts. This volume, or...

  • Echo's Bones

    In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett’s More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories -- it was to be his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story to serve a...

  • Samuel Beckett Trilogy

  • Eleutheria

    “Eleuthéria is important… it anticipates much of Beckett's later work.” -- The New York Times“Eleuthéria is intensely and enduringly funny… replete with that morbid Irish jocularity, unpretentious punning, and lidless stare at the unfath...

  • Waiting for Godot

    From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a corn...

  • The End

  • Dante and the Lobster

    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 indebte...



  • The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love

  • Company

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    "The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett''s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind''s boundless expanse. In Co...

  • Ill Seen Ill Said

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    The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind s boundless expanse. In "Comp...

  • In Transition : a Paris anthology : writing and art from Transition magazine 1927-30

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  • The Lost Ones

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  • Westward Ho

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    "The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett''s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind''s boundless expanse. In Co...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Samuel Beckett has published 45 books.

Samuel Beckett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, was published in March 1978.

No. Samuel Beckett does not write books in series.
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