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Student library info ▿The Student library info pertains to the period when Beckett was a student at Trinity College Dublin (1923-1927) and a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and TCD (1928-1931). It explains when he is thought to have acquired and read the book in question, based on his inscription, as well as various external sources including the official TCD college calendars, his 'Dream' Notebook, and his letters.Read: by October 1927.
Used by Beckett during his studies, possibly for his Moderatorship exam.
Source: Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library, p. 43.
Des Granges, Ch-M.: Histoire illustrée de la littérature française
Paris: Librairie Hatier, 1920 [1910]
5th ed.

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Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon and Vincent Neyt. Student Library edited by Veronica Bãlã.

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