In this one-volume collection of his fiction, drama, poetry, and critical writings, we get an unsurpassed look at his work.

The Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett is a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett.

The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett's personal library.

"Following the schema of Samuel Beckett's unpublished 'Long Observation of the Ray,' of which only six manuscript pages exist, [the author] interleaves multiple narratives according to an arithmetic sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes ...

It should come as no surprise if a decade or so hence How It Is is appraised as a masterpiece of modern literature. This poetic novel is Beckett at his height.” — Webster Schott “A wonderful book, written in the sparest prose. . .

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 ...

Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic.

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.