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Subtitled "A tragicomedy in two Acts", and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', "En a...

"A vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work." Originally intended as the "recessional" or final piece to Samuel Beckett's 1934 short sto...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and look...

These Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett is part of a landmark publishing project to publish edited and corrected texts of all of Beckett's works.

Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly ...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly ...

Review A terrific thriller from one of our finest crime writers at the top of his game. ― Peter James a roaring, full-throated thriller -- Geoffr...

More than 150 years after its initial publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations now enters its nineteenth edi�tion. First compiled by John Bartle...

Six glorious plays by Alan Bennett, collected together for the first time in this celebratory box set. Forty Years On premiered at the Apollo Theat...

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022 A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by...

This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wo...

Review A richly detailed biography of the distinguished British publishing house. -- Kirkus A uniquely close-up view of 20th-century literary hist...

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Si...

Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce...

The arrangement of these Selected Poems demonstrates the consistency of Christopher Logue's vision as it matured through a varied career. He publis...