Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

WORKS BY SAMUEL BECKETT PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS
    Collected Poems in English and French
    The Collected Shorter Plays
    (All That Fall, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Krapp’s Last Tape, Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II, Embers, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, . . . but the clouds . . . , A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht and Träume, What Where)
    The Complete Short Prose: 1929–1989
    (Assumption, Sedendo et Quiescendo, Text, A Case in a Thousand, First Love, The Expelled, The Calmative, The End, Texts for Nothing 1–13, From an Abandoned Work, The Image, All Strange Away, Imagination Dead Imagine, Enough, Ping, Lessness, The Lost Ones, Fizzles 1–8, Heard in the Dark 1, Heard in the Dark 2, One Evening, As the story was told, The Cliff, neither, Stirrings Still, Variations on a “Still” Point, Faux Départs, The Capital of the Ruins)
    Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment
    Endgame and Act Without Words
    Ends and Odds
    First Love and Other Shorts
    Happy Days
    How It Is
    I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    Krapp’s Last Tape
    (All That Fall, Embers, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II)
    Mercier and Camier
    Molloy
    More Pricks Than Kicks
    (Dante and the Lobster, Fingal, Ding-Dong, A Wet Night, Love and Lethe, Walking Out, What a Misfortune, The Smeraldina’s Billet Doux, Yellow, Draff)
    Murphy
    Nohow On
    (Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho)
    The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett
    Rockaby and Other Short Plays
    (Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, All Strange Away, and A Piece of Monologue)
    The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett (boxed paperback set)
    Volume I: Novels
    (Murphy, Watt, Mercier and Camier)
    Volume II: Novels
    (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, How It Is)
    Volume III: Dramatic Works
    Volume IV: Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism
    Stories and Texts for Nothing
    (The Expelled, The Calmative, The End, Texts for Nothing 1–13)
    Three Novels
    (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
    Waiting for Godot
    Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition
    Watt

Samuel Beckett
    Happy Days

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    Copyright renewed © 1989 by the Estate of Samuel Beckett
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