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Echo's Bones is a never-before-published short story by Samuel Beckett - one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century - with an introduction and critical notes by the preeminent Beckett scholar Mark Nixon.
Echo's Bones is a never-before-published short story by Samuel Beckett - one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century - with an introduction and critical notes by the preeminent Beckett scholar Mark Nixon.
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Echo's Bones was intended by Samuel Beckett to form the 'recessional' or end-piece of his early collection of interrelated stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, published in 1934. The story was written at the request of the publisher, but was held back from inclusion in the published volume.
Echo's Bones has remained unpublished to this day, and the present edition will situate the work in terms of its biographical context, its intertextual references, and as a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work.
The editor, Mark Nixon, is director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571246380
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 April 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 143.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 276g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
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