extant student library (75)
La Sacra Bibbia
Roma :
Società Biblica Britannica e Forestiera,
1924
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin'
Reading traces on : 27, 52, 56, 57, 816, 819, 820, 822, 824, 830, 846, 1090, 1101, 1115, 1172, 1173.
Lettres d'Amabed , notably the footnotes to the Troisième lettre du journal d'Amabed (Van Hulle and Nixon 2013, p. 181).
En attendant Godot on page 05r, Lévy (Estragon) describes the maps of 'The Holy Land' in the Bible in a way that is a good match with the map in this copy.
Read: by October 1924Beckett possibly acquired this Bible as soon as his Italian courses started. In October 1924, judging by the inscription.
Burton , Robert:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 1
London :
George Bell & Sons,
1893
Inscription: 'for Anne / with love / from Sam / Paris / may 77'
Reading traces on : 85, 86, 91, 92, 93, 109, 117, 165, 192, 205, 214, 279, 283, 285, 298, 308, 343, 346, 348insert, 356, 360, 362, 373, 378, 390, 391, 400, 427, 431, 457, 459, 497.
The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Read: by November 1931Beckett owned a copy which is preserved in the Avigdor Arikha collection. There are more than 200 entries from the Anatomy inserted in Beckett's "Dream" Notebook.
Source:
Beckett's "Dream" Notebook , ed. by John Pilling, p. 104.
Burton , Robert:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, Vol. 2
London :
George Bell & Sons,
1893
Reading traces on : 45, 48, 69, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87, 97, 100, 102, 115, 133, 134, 138, 139, 152, 153, 154, 175, 208, 209.
The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Read: by November 1931Beckett owned a copy which is preserved in the Avigdor Arikha collection. There are more than 200 entries from the Anatomy inserted in Beckett's "Dream" Notebook.
Source:
Beckett's "Dream" Notebook , ed. by John Pilling, p. 104.
Corneille , Pierre:
La Galerie du palais
Manchester : Manchester University Press; London : Longmans, Green & Co.,
1920
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin - / Michaelmas Term - 1923'
Reading traces on : 7, 8, 52, 57, 60, 68, 75, 79, 85.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: by January 1924Preserved at the Beckett International Foundation in Reading.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
Debraye , Henri:
En Touraine et sur les bords de la Loire
Grenoble :
Éditions J. Rey,
1926
Inscription: '[signed] / Paris August 1926'
Currently for sale at De Búrca Rare Books [march 2016]
Return to the Vestry 1926 in Lawrence E. Harvey - Samuel Beckett. Poet & Critic, p.308".
Read: Summer 1926Beckett used this as his guidebook for his first trip through France. It contains many literary landmarks connected to Rabelais, Ronsard, Descartes and Balzac among others (Knowlson 1996, 64). Notebook MS 10964 (containing a summary of the Divine Comedy ) bears the inscription "Bought at Tours: Sept. 3rd 1926", the town where Beckett started and ended his trip (Knowlson 1996, 65)
Source:
James Knowlson, Damned to Fame (1996), p. 64.
Descartes , René:
Choix de textes
Paris :
Louis-Michaud Editions,
n.d.
Les grands philosophes français et étrangers
Inscription: 'Jean Beaufret'
Reading traces on : 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 46, 75, 94, 95, 96, 106, 107, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 200insertrecto, 200insertverso, backflyleaf, backcover.
Read: February 1930The lines in the margin indicate either Beckett's reading or his friend Jean Beaufret's. The copy first belonged to Beaufret who was reading it together with Beckett. It is, thus, difficult to determine the author of these non-verbal traces.
Source:
John Pilling, A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 23.
Dostoievski , Fjodor:
Le Crime et le châtiment
Paris :
Librairie Plon,
[1884]
35th ed.
Read: August 1930Beckett may have read Dostoevsky's Le Crime et le châtiment by that time, as Van Hulle and Nixon note (2013, 123). The copy still present in Beckett's library bears no date, nor annotations, but could be a plausible first title by the Russian author for him.
Sources:
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library , p. 123.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 41.
Dostoievski , Fjodor:
La Confession de Stavroguine
Paris :
Librairie Plon,
1923
13th ed.
Read: August 1931Beckett may have read Dostoevsky's Confession de Stavroguine by that time, as Van Hulle and Nixon note (2013, 123)
Sources:
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library , p. 123.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 79.
Fornaciari , Raffaello:
Disegno storico della letteratura italiana
Florence :
G.C. Sansoni,
1901
Read: by October 1927The College Calendars do not mention Fornaciari. However, Beckett most likely used this copy during his studies or for his Modertatorship exam. In the chronological account, Beckett marked passages on almost every page up to, but excluding, the third to last chapter (on Leopardi). The various markings in coloured pencils indicate that the book may have been used at different periods of time.
Homère :
L'Odyssée
Paris :
Société d'édition " Les belles lettres ",
1925
Read: by September 1931Source:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 90.
Joyce , James:
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
London :
Grant Richards Ltd.,
1918
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett'
Reading traces on : 1, 6, 8, 10, 14, 17, 98, 100, 102, 109, 122, 125, 133, 136.
Read: Summer 1927
Mauriac , François:
La Vie de Jean Racine
Paris :
Plon,
1928
Reading traces on : 35, 49, 51, 80, 85, 86, 88, 95, 97, 99, 105, 120, 124, 129, 130, 131, 140, 142, 165, 169, 193, 194, 198, 200, 227, 229, 242.
Read: October 1930Beckett acquired this book in preparation for his Trinity lectures on French literature.
Source:
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon, Samuel Beckett's Library , p. 48.
Michaut , G.:
Sainte-Beuve
Paris :
Librairie Hachette,
1921
Reading traces on : flyer, flyerinsert, 192, 193, 195, 200, 203, 205.
Read: by October 1924Michaut's biography of Sainte-Beuve is not mentioned in the Calendars and might have been an extracurricular reading for Beckett. The paper note inside bearing a stamp mark with the date "9-1-24" lists a few French authors' names (Boileau, Voltaire, Pascal, Staël, Molière). However, the note could have been inserted at a later date, explaining the handwriting which does not match Beckett's other student marginalia.
Molière :
L'Avare
Paris :
Librairie Hachette,
1918
8th ed.
Inscription: 'Samuel B. Beckett / Trinity College / Dublin. / Hilary Term - 1924''Daniel de W. Rogers. / T.C.D. / Michaelmas Term 1950.'
Reading traces on : 64, 65, 71, 99, 103, 108, 149, 154.
Currently for sale at Peter Harrington, London [april 2016]
L'Avare , edited by Alfred Thomas Baker, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1918.
Read: by May 1924Source:
TCD College Calendar
Molière :
Théâtre complet, Vol. 2
Paris :
Bibliothèque Hachette,
n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on : 206, 207, 212, 234, 257, 258, 259, 268, 314, 315.
Read: by October 1926 (La Princesse d'Élide, Les Amants magnifiques, La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas), by October 1927 (Les Fourberies de Scapin, Tartuffe)Volumes II, IV and V bear the inscription "July 1926" indicating that he used the volumes for the Michaelmas examination in October 1926 which lists three plays by Molière.
Molière :
Théâtre complet, Vol. 5
Paris :
Bibliothèque Hachette,
n.d.
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / July 1926
Reading traces on : 67, 131, 138, 139, 148.
Read: by October 1926 (La Princesse d'Élide, Les Amants magnifiques, La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas), by October 1927 (Les Fourberies de Scapin, Tartuffe)Volumes II, IV and V bear the inscription "July 1926" indicating that he used the volumes for the Michaelmas examination in October 1926 which lists three plays by Molière.
Petrarca , Francesco:
Le Rime del Petrarca, Vol. 2
Milan :
Nicolò Bettoni,
1824
Inscription: 'Eliza Jane de [Visma] / the gift of her dear Father / 1836'
Reading traces on : 8, 13, 17, 23, 24, 29, 35, 36, 39, 42, 44, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 60, 63, 66, 79, 80, 89, 91, 95, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 121, 124, 182, 183, 184, 185, 188, 189.
The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Read: by January 1926Beckett used this edition published in Milan instead of the "Canzoniere" recommended by the TCD College Calendars. Beckett dates his reading experience with the marginal remark "1926" at the end of sonnets VIII and XX.
Pope , Alexander:
Essay on Criticism
Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
1909
Reading traces on : 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 19, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30.
Read: by October 1925Source:
TCD College Calendar
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,042'
Reading traces on : 14, 23, 29, 33, 34, 41, 51, 54, 74, 102, 103, 106, 152, 155, 175, 179, 183, 187, 190, 192, 194, 197, 198, 208, 234, 249, 252, 257, 258, 268, 269, 282, 295, 298, 300, 301.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue *
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,112'
Reading traces on : 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41, 42, 53, 57, 58, 62, 63, 70, 71, 75, 81, 82, 100, 101, 110, 115, 118, 119, 121, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 139, 152, 164, 166, 169, 173, 182, 188, 203, 205, 223.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1926
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,113'
Reading traces on : 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, 32, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 74, 77, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 110, 114, 117, 135, 137, 142, 144, 149, 154, 155, 161, 173, 178, 183, 204, 206, 207, 208, 211.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes I
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: '9007677342''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,045'
Reading traces on : 11, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 60, 61, 63, 68, 76, 79, 82, 101, 102, 105, 110, 112, 122, 126, 127, 144, 162, 226, 245, 265, 266, 272, 273.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes II Sodome et Gomorrhe I
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: '9007677351''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,046'
Reading traces on : 12, 15, 19, 20, 26, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51, 53, 54, 58, 61, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 95, 96, 101, 103, 107, 173, 196, 217, 228, 229, 259.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II *
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,047'
Reading traces on : 13, 24, 25, 27, 30, 31, 32, 33, 43, 74, 75, 121, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 152, 153, 157, 169, 172, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 186, 188, 195, 203, 208, 210, 213, 215, 216, 217.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Reading traces on : 8, 12, 15, 19, 21, 23, 33, 43, 54, 55, 66, 67, 70, 95, 96, 100, 121, 131, 141, 144, 146, 148, 149, 150, 159, 160, 168, 178, 188, 189, 210, 211, 213, 218, 219.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Sodome et Gomorrhe II ***
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,049'
Reading traces on : 24, 25, 32, 38, 39, 44, 45, 51, 52, 55, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 82, 83, 87, 90, 95, 106, 107, 124, 125, 126, 159, 165, 174, 191, 198, 207, 209, 210, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 227, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) *
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,110'
Reading traces on : 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 76, 91, 92, 93, 104, 105, 112, 116, 117, 124, 128, 130, 135, 142, 144, 145, 148, 149, 158, 165, 205, 215, 217, 234, 244, 259, 260, 261, 267.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III) **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1927
Inscription: 'Innocence''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,111'
Reading traces on : 12, 19, 35, 52, 62, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 110, 111, 112, 124, 168, 195, 207, 208, 214, 215, 223, 226, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246, 247, 249, 256, 268.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Du Côté de chez Swann *
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1928
Inscription: 'S. B. Beckett''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,041''For / Reading University Library / Samuel Beckett / april 1973'
Reading traces on : 11, 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 30, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 59, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84, 93, 98, 99, 100, 101, 107, 112, 116, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 135, 139, 140, 144, 147, 154, 163, 166, 173, 175, 193, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 224, 226, 249, 256, 257, 258, 264, 265, 286, 289, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: by October 1927, Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett first read part of volume I in a virtual edition for the final examination at TCD in October 1927 (Moderatorship). Although signed in student fashion "S. B. Beckett", the volume that opens the Nouvelle révue française collection was probably only acquired early in 1928 together with the other fifteen volumes. A letter to Thomas MacGreevy dated summer 1929 reveals Beckett having finished reading the first volume, Du côté de chez Swann , finding it "strangely uneven" (LSB I , 11). Beckett wrote to MacGreevy on 7 August 1930 that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarThe Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,043'
Reading traces on : 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 36, 59, 60, 61, 75, 77, 78, 79, 91, 97, 99, 100, 105, 148, 155, 156, 158, 161, 164, 165, 166, 167, 184, 185, 187, 188, 189.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26). The fourth volume contains a marginal note ("Mail Boat - Aug 1928") that could be mistaken for the date when Beckett was reading that passage. The note actually indicates that Beckett retrospectively associated the narrator's transition from an "ancien moi" to a "moi différent" with his own experience of moving to continental Europe. Nevertheless, the reading itself took place in 1929.
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs ***
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Inscription: '[Insolence]''P / Samuel Beckett // 254,044'
Reading traces on : 59, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 82, 98, 99, 137, 139, 145, 146, 148, 151, 155, 215.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé *
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Inscription: 'P / Samuel Beckett // 254,114'
Reading traces on : 8, 9, 11, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 109, 165, 198, 199, 207, 210, 212, 220, 227, 228, 232, 233, insbackcover.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Proust , Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouvé **
Paris :
Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française,
1929
Reading traces on : 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 90, 98, 100, 101, 104, 110, 114, 125, 168, 172, 174, 177, 178, 227, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 251, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, lastpage.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: Summer 1929, Summer 1930Beckett most likely read the entire collection in the (late) summer of 1929, when he wrote to MacGreevy about having finished the first volume (LSB I , 11). On 7 August 1930, he wrote to MacGreevy that he had started re-reading À la recherche du temps perdu (Pilling 2006, 26).
Sources:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 11.A Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 26.
Racine , Jean:
Théâtre complet, avec des remarques littéraires et un
choix de notes classiques par M. Félix Lemaistre; précédé d'une notice sur la vie et
le théâtre de Racine par L.-S. Auger
Paris :
Garnier Frères,
n.d. [1863]
Reading traces on : 569, 628.
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: by January 1924 (Andromaque), by April 1926 (Phèdre), by April 1926 (Bérénice), by April 1926 (Athalie), by October 1927, October 1931 (Britannicus, Bajazet, Mithridate)Uncertain: the handwriting and the brevity of the remarks do not resemble young Beckett's student marginalia. Knowing Beckett's deep engagement with Racine's works, it seems likely that this is not the edition he used as a student or later as a lecturer.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
Renard , Jules:
Le Journal de Jules Renard 1887–1910, Vol. 1
Paris :
François Bernouard,
1927
Reading traces on : 8, 28, 34, 38, 39, 43, 50, 55, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 81, 82, 89, 91, 92, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111, 114, 115, 117, 119, 122, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 140, 141, 147, 162, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 182, 192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 202, 211, 214, 216, 223, 243, 262, 275, 278, 282, 303, 304, 310, 311, 314, 315, 317, 318, 326, 355, 356.
Read: February 1931On 24 February 1931, Beckett wrote to MacGreevy that he had started Jules Renard's Journal (LSB I 69).
Source:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 69.
Renard , Jules:
Le Journal de Jules Renard 1887–1910, Vol. 2
Paris :
François Bernouard,
1927
Reading traces on : 381, 408, 423, 426, 429, 433, 435, 444, 460, 462, 465, 471, 473, 474, 476, 479, 484, 485, 489, 491, 493, 496, 500, 508, 510, 527, 528, 548, 569, 583, 596, 597, 602, 604, 607, 608, 619, 622, 628, 654, 658, 661, 663, 664, 670, 671, 692.
Read: February 1931On 24 February 1931, Beckett wrote to MacGreevy that he had started Jules Renard's Journal (LSB I 69).
Source:
The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 69.
de Sanctis , Francesco:
Storia della letteratura italiana, Vol. 2
Bari :
Gius. Laterza & Figli,
1925
Reading traces on : 23, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 218, 225, 247, 249, 261, 264, 267, 274, 275, 276, 277, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357.
Read: by October 1927For the Moderatorship examination, Beckett was free to choose any of the histories on Italian literature by de Sanctis, Hauvette or Scherillo. His copy of de Sanctis' Storia was bought in May 1927 in Florence.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
Scève , Maurice:
Délie: Object de plus haulte vertu
Paris :
Hachette,
1916
Reading traces on : vii, viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xix, xvi, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviv, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 38, 47, 48, 50, 57, 64, 67, 69, 75, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 97, 99, 109, 110, 113, 114, 124, 140, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 154, 157, 159, 160, 171, 175, 176, 177, 182, 183, 196, 197, 210, 211, 216, 217, 220, 222, 226, 236, 237, 244, 247, 258, 266, 267, 270, 280, 284, 303, 305.
The private collection of Anne Atik, Paris
Read: by January 1926This book now belongs to the private collection of Avigdor Arikha and Anne Atik.
Source:
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Shakespeare , William:
Macbeth
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1922
Inscription: 'm / S. B. Beckett. / Portora. / VIth Form / September 1922'
Reading traces on : tp1, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 34, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 46, 48, 51, 52, 56, 57, 59, 60, 67, 68, 72, 73, 78, backflyleafverso, insidebackcover.
Read: September 1922The inscription by Beckett metions that he was at Portora Royal School when he acquired this book.
Shakespeare , William:
The Works of William Shakspeare
London /New York :
Frederick Warne and Co,
n.d.
The "Universal" Edition
Reading traces on : 225, 808, 811, 821, 823, 946insert, 1087.
Read: by January 1924 (Henry V), by October 1923 (The Merchant of Venice), by January 1924 (A Midsummer Night's Dream), by January 1925 (The Merchant of Venice), by May 1924 (Julius Caesar), March 1931(Julius Caesar), by May 1924 (Coriolanus), by October 1924 (As You Like It), by October 1924 (Twelfth Night), by January 1925 (The Tempest), November 1928 (The Tempest), by May 1925 (Richard III), by May 1925 (Romeo and Juliet), March 1931 (Romeo and Juliet), by October 1925 (Macbeth, by October 1925 (Hamlet), March 1931 (Anthony and Cleopatra), March 1931 (Othello), March 1931 (Richard II), March 1931 (Troilus and Cressida)Source:
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Spenser , Edmund:
The Faerie Queene, Vol. II
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1922
Inscription: 'S. Beckett / Trinity College, Dublin / 1924'
Reading traces on : 53, 99, 127, 129, 145, 199, insertrecto, insertverso.
The private collection of Terence Killeen
Read: by May 1924Source:
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Stendhal , [Henri Beyle]:
Le Rouge et le noir
Paris :
Garnier,
1925
Inscription: 'S.B. Beckett Dublin November 1926'
Beckett International Foundation, The University of Reading
Read: by October 1927, December 1931Stendhal's Le Rouge et le noir , which Beckett had bought in November 1926, features on the list for the Moderatorship exam (Pilling 2006, 13). Beckett mentioned re-reading Le Rouge et le noir in a letter dated 20 December 1931 (LSB I 100).
Sources:
TCD College CalendarA Samuel Beckett Chronology , p. 13.The Letters of Samuel Beckett , vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 100.
Tasso , Torquato:
Gerusalemme liberata
Milan :
Ulrico Hoepli,
1923
6th ed.
Inscription: Samuel B. Beckett / May 1925
Reading traces on : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 30, 31, 54, 55.
Read: by October 1925Beckett acquired Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata in May 1925 as the first page shows.
Source:
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Thompson , A. Hamilton:
A History of English Literature, and of the Chief English Writers
London :
John Murray,
1914
Revised edition
Inscription: S. B. Beckett / feb. 1923
Reading traces on : 143, 149, 171, 180, 192, 214, 215, 223, 276, 291, 303, 319, 386, 438, 510, 540.
Read: by April 1923The History contains a marginal comment on page 171 in the "Marlowe" subsection which reads "25/4/23". This allows us to determine that Beckett was already preparing months in advance for his Junior Exhibition (the entrance examination in October 1923). Prospective students were also supposed to read the accompanying extracts from Smith's Specimens organized under the same chapter titles as Thompson's History . We can assume Beckett read Thompson and Smith in parallel in the spring of 1923, although no extant copy of the Specimens is available.
Source:
TCD College Calendar
Vaissière , Robert de la:
Anthologie poètique du XXe siècle, Vol. 1
Paris :
Les Editions G. Crès et Cie.,
1923
Reading traces on : 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 58, 66, 83, 106, 110, 113, 122, 144, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 162, 168, 177, 226, 249, 251, 253, 254.
Read: by October 1927Source:
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