Samuel Beckett: A Biography

ISBN-10: 0671691732
ISBN-13: 9780671691738
Series: Samuel Beckett
Category: Authors, French
Pages: 762
Language: English
Published: 1990
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Author: Deirdre Bair

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Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.

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Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution
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- 128 pages
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Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution
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Samuel Beckett: Poet and Critic
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