Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Dream of Fair to Middling Women
First edition
Author	Samuel Beckett
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	novel
Publisher	Black Cat
Publication date	1992 (written in 1932)
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	241 pp
ISBN	978-0-948050-09-1
OCLC	27052646

Dream of Fair to Middling Women is Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English "in a matter of weeks" in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. It is set in the town of Kassel, Germany, where 17-year-old Peggy Sinclair, a cousin of Beckett, lived with her parents. Beckett made several visits in Kassel 1928-32. The novel was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death. The main character Belacqua, a writer and teacher, is very similar to Beckett himself, though a character named "Mr. Beckett" also makes an appearance in the book.

Weblinks

http://www.vorderer-westen.net/131/ ( Beckett´s visits in Kassel,Germany, incl. picture of Peggy Sinclair, german)
http://is.muni.cz/th/382983/ff_b/Bachelor_Thesis_-_o.v..txt ( Autobiographical aspects, engl)

Samuel Beckett

Plays

Theatre	Human Wishes Eleutheria Waiting for Godot Act Without Words I Act Without Words II Endgame Krapp's Last Tape Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre II Happy Days Play Come and Go Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Neither A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Catastrophe What Where

Radio	All That Fall From an Abandoned Work Embers The Old Tune Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Words and Music Cascando

Television	Eh Joe Beginning To End Ghost Trio ... but the clouds ... Quad I + II Nacht und Träume Beckett Directs Beckett

Screen	Film

Novels

Short stories

"Assumption"
"Sedendo et Quiescendo"
"Text"
"Echo's Bones"
"A Case in a Thousand"
"First Love"
"From an Abandoned Work"
"The Image"
"All Strange Away"
"Imagination Dead Imagine"
"Enough"
"Ping"
"Lessness"
"The Lost Ones"
"Fizzles"
"Heard in the Dark 1"
"Heard in the Dark 2"
"One Evening"
"As the story was told"
"The Cliff"
"neither"
"Stirrings Still"
"Company"
"Ill Seen Ill Said"
"Worstward Ho"

Short story collections

Non-fiction

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