MURPHY
by Beckett, Samuel
- Used
- Condition
- Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0802144454
- ISBN 13
- 9780802144454
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1957. Reprint. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 8vo., 170pp. Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a "striking case of love requited" but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett's work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.
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- Bookseller
- Alta-Glamour Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93617
- Title
- MURPHY
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used - Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0802144454
- ISBN 13
- 9780802144454
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.