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New books.(Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition)(Berlin Childhood Around 1900)(Betraying Spinoza)(Everyman)(Brief article)(Book review)
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Harper's Magazine
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May 1, 2006| Author:
Leonard, John
| COPYRIGHT 2006 Harper's Magazine Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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About Wagner and Mahler, Samuel Beckett believed that less is more. But for his one hundredth birthday, SAMUEL BECKETT: THE GROVE CENTENARY EDITION gives us almost everything--seven novels, thirty-two plays, thirty poems, fifty-four stories, texts, and novellas, and three critical essays, in four handsome volumes, $24 each. Omitted are his first novel and his first play, neither of which he permitted to be published in his lifetime. Added, by editor Paul Auster, are introductions b...
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; THE GROVE CENTENARY EDITION By Samuel Beckett Grove, 2,078pp.(fourvolumes) $96 GODOT: BILINGUAL EDITION By Samuel Beckett Grove, 357pp. $22 PLAY IT AGAIN Remembering Beckett on his 100th and inhabiting the space next to the silence Samuel Beckett, whose centenary is celebrated April 13, pictured
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Godot is here. (Samuel Becket and Vaclav Havel)
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; `Godot Is Here' On December 20, 1989, two days before Samuel Beckett's death, I delivered to Vaclav Havel in Prague a signed manuscript copy of Beckett's Catastrophe. In 1982 Beckett dedicated the play to Havel, then serving a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Beckett, whose plays were banned
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Merry messenger of doom. (Samuel Beckett) (Currents) (obituary)
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