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Murphy.
LIBRA - Special PR6003.E282 M8 1957b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black humor.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Evergreen edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1957.
- Summary:
- 'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him.
- Notes:
- "An Evergreen book."
- A novel.
- ISBN:
- 0802150373
- 9780802150370
- OCLC:
- 30716830
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