Samuel Beckett
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This student library subsection of the BDL lists both the extant and the virtual titles which Beckett is known or thought to have read during the years 1923-1931, first as a student at Trinity College Dublin, then as a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and TCD. The extant student library consists of the books dating from this timeframe that have been preserved in various collections, most importantly in Beckett's apartment in Paris. The virtual student library, by contrast, contains the books which, according to specific sources, Beckett read or may have read as a student and lecturer but which have not been preserved.

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 Garnier, Pierre: Onanisme seul et à deux
[1883]

Read: Summer 1931.
 The "Dream" Notebook contains sixty entries from Pierre Garnier's Onanisme seul et à deux (DN 59).
Source: Beckett's "Dream" Notebook, ed. by John Pilling.
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 Gautier, Théophile: Voyage en Italie
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1904]
Pitt Press series

Read: by October 1925.
Source: TCD College Calendar
Giacosa, Giuseppe: Diritti dell'anima / Tristi amori
Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1923
Notes: - no front cover; - corner of page 22 folded down

Read: by October 1927.
 Uncertain: Beckett was required to read Tristi amori for his Moderatorship exam. The copy of Giacosa's Tristi amori which Beckett used, in an edition that included the comedy Diritti dell'anima, is possibly the one still preserved in the library. It contains no reading traces apart from a folded-down corner on page 22. If this is Beckett's marking, then that would indicate that he may have begun reading Diritti dell'anima alongside the compulsory Tristi amori.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Giacosa, Guiseppe: Il conte rosso
[1880]

Read: by October 1924 (Book II), by January 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Giacosa, Guiseppe: Una partita a Scacchi
[1871]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Giacosa, Guiseppe: Il trionfo d'amore
[1875]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gide, André: L'École des femmes
[1929]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Isabella
[1911]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gide, André: La Porte étroite
[1909]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gide, André: Si le grain ne meurt
[1926]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Les Cahiers d'André Walter
[1891]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Les Nourritures terrestres
[1897]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Voyage d'Urien
[1893]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: La Symphonie pastorale
[1919]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Prométhée mal enchaîné
[1899]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Caves du Vatican
[1914]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Les Faux-monnayeurs
[1925]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: L'Immoraliste
[1902]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Gide, André: Dostoïevsky
[1923]

Read: by October 1931.
 Uncertain reading date: mentioned in the TCD lectures of autumn 1931.
Source: Rachel Burrows's lecture notes (TCD MIC 60)
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 Giles, H.A.: The Civilisation of China
[1911]

Read: Summer 1931.
Source: Beckett's "Dream" Notebook, ed. by John Pilling, p. 73.
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 Goldoni, Carlo: La locandiera
Strasburg: Heitz, 1910
"Bibliotheca Romanica" series

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Goldoni, Carlo: Le donne curiose
Strasburg: Heitz, 1910
"Bibliotheca Romanica" series

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Goldoni, Carlo: La vedova scaltra
Strasburg: Heitz, 1920
"Bibliotheca Romanica" series
Giovanni Tecchio (ed.)

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gormunt et Isembart
Paris: H. Champion, [1914]
"Classiques français du moyen-âge" series

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gozzano, Guido: L'altare del passato
[1918]

Read: by January 1925.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Gozzi, Carlo: La fiabe
Milan: Istituto editoriale italiano, 1914
Classici italiani series

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
Des Granges, Ch-M.: Histoire illustrée de la littérature française
Paris: Librairie Hatier, 1920 [1910]
5th ed.

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.
Green, John Richard: A Short History of the English People
London: Macmillan, 1920 [1916]
rev. and enlarged ed.
Inscription: 'F.E. Beckett / July 1920'

Read: by October 1923.
 Uncertain: the inscription indicates that Beckett's older brother first acquired and used this book. It is safe to speculate that it is this copy that Beckett consulted for the Junior Exhibition, despite the lack of reading traces. The only doubt that can be raised concerns Beckett's tone when on 5 January 1933 he writes to Thomas MacGreevy about reading Green: "I've been reading nothing but a little history (Greene! [for Green], his libel on poor Charles 2. The royal mumper!" (LSB I 150). The passing mention of the book combined with the spelling mistake point rather to a first reading than to a re-reading.
Source: The Letters of Samuel Beckett, vol. I, 1929-1940, p. 150.
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 Groto, Luigi: Il pentimento amoroso
[1576]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Guarini, Battista: Il pastor fido
Strasburg: Heitz, [1912]
"Bibliotheca Romanica" series, vol. 154, 155, 156

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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 Guarnerio, Pier Enea: Fonologia romanza
Milan: Hoepli, [1918]

Read: by October 1927.
Source: TCD College Calendar
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