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Company Samuel Beckett publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1980 full text search: the ledge - flash version* *	summary: Prose. A old man lying on his back alone in the dark is spoken to by a ghostly, unrelenting voice he can neither verify nor name.
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	BOOKS BY SAMUEL BECKETT: The Unnamable 1953 Part III of Beckett's Trilogy. A man without an identity tries to find out who he is.
	Watt Written circa 1943, published 1953 –› Excerpt Insofar as it has a plot, Watt does for the most part concern a man named Watt, who travels to the manor of Mr Knott and there works for him, engaged in the most mechanical yet convoluted tasks, before leaving and (perhaps) ultimately being institutionalized.
	Malone Dies 1951 Part II of the Trilogy. The decrepit Malone, bedridden, fills his mind and his remaining time with memories, stories and bitter comment, while waiting for the 'throes'. The novel disintegrates as the protagonist does.
	Molloy 1947 (published in 1951) Part I of a trilogy of novels. Written in the first person, Molloy consists of two monologues - that of Molloy on his odyssey towards his mother, lost in town and country and finally emerging from the forest; and that of Moran, a private detective who is sent to find him.
	Whoroscope 1930 A very long poem. Iin which the protagonist, Rene Descartes, waits for his morning omelet of well-aged eggs, while meditating on the obscurity of theological mysteries, the passage of time, and the approach of death.
	More Pricks Than Kicks 1934 A collection of stories about Belacqua, a student in Dublin in the 1920 - his adventures, encounters and amours.
	That Time 1976 Short play. That Time intercuts three monologues from three separate periods of time in the experience of one character.
	Murphy 1938 Murphy, a work-shy Irishman in London, loved by a prostitute, concerns himself with getting wiser and achieving peace of mind.
	Dream of Fair to Middling Women 1932 (first published in 1992) Samuel Beckett's first novel written in Paris in 1932 and rejected by publishers at the time for its eccentricity. The hero, Belacqua, a near enough alter-ego for the author, is a student in Dublin with a messy love-life and a colorful series of girlfriends.
	Waiting for Godot 1952 Beckett's first stage play portrays two men, down on their luck and trapped in an endless waiting for the arrival of a mysterious personage named Godot, while disputing the appointed place and hour of his coming.
	Krapp's Last Tape 1959 Play. An old man records his comments as he listens to a tape recording of his own observations on how life felt when he was 39.
	How it Is 1961 A novel conceived in terms of the human voice, at the end of its tether, swimming through a sea of mud that is threatening to engulf the swimmer - a powerful metaphor of the human condition which Beckett has dramatised many times.
	Endgame 1957 Play in one act. Outside lies a world of death. Inside the room the blind, impervious Hamm sits in a wheelchair while his lame servant, Clov, scuttles about obeying his orders. Each depends fractiously on the other.
	Happy Days 1961 Play in two acts. A woman imprisoned in a mound of earth and a man compelled to remain in her presence rationalize their 'happy' existence together.
	Not I 1973 This short play features an actress seated on stage with just her mouth spot-lit. The mouth delivers a long stream of consciousness. One critic said, 'If Molly Bloom's famous monologue is an affirmation of life and assertion of female identity, Not I is its opposite.'
	Ohio Impromptu 1981 Short play. An elderly man is plagued by sleeplessness and haunted by the memory of a tragic loss. The story of this loss, and of his life following, is the subject of a worn book read aloud by 'Reader' to the silent 'Listener'.
	Ill Seen Ill Said 1981 This novella focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe.
	Company 1980 Prose. A old man lying on his back alone in the dark is spoken to by a ghostly, unrelenting voice he can neither verify nor name.
	Worstward Ho 1983 The most condensed of all Beckett's prose works, this short parable describes life coming into being and the whole impossible process of creation.
	Stirrings Still 1988 In this text - the author's final prose work - the narrator finds the ability, although unable to move from his room, to do so, and to go out and return.
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