The Complete Short Prose 1929–1989

The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989 is a collection which includes all of Samuel Beckett's works written in prose, with the exception of his novels, novellas, and More Pricks Than Kicks which is considered "as much a novel as a collection of stories"^[1]. The book was edited by S. E. Gontarski and published by Grove Press in 1995.

Contents

• Introduction by S. E. Gontarski
• Assumption (1929)
• Sedendo et Quiescendo (1932)
• Text (1932)
• A Case in a Thousand (1934)
• First Love (1946)
• Stories and Texts for Nothing:
  • The Expelled (1946)
  • The Calmative (1946)
  • The End (1946)
  • Texts for Nothing (1950-1952)
• From an Abandoned Work (1954-1955)
• The Image (1956)
• All Strange Away (1963-1964)
• Imagination Dead Imagine (1965)
• Enough (1965)
• Ping (1966)
• Lessness (1969)
• The Lost Ones (1966,1970)
• Fizzles (1973-1975)
  • Fizzle 1 [He is barehead]
  • Fizzle 2 [Horn came always]
  • Fizzle 3 Afar a Bird
  • Fizzle 4 [I gave up before birth]
  • Fizzle 5 [Closed place]
  • Fizzle 6 [Old earth]
  • Fizzle 7 Still
  • Fizzle 8 For to end yet again
• Heard in the Dark 1
• Heard in the Dark 2
• One Evening
• As the story was told (1973)
• Cliff (1975)
• neither (1976)
• Stirrings Still (1988)
• Appendix I: Variations on a "Still" Point
  • Sounds (1973)
  • Still 3 (1973)
• Appendix II: Faux Départs (1965)
• Appendix III: Nonfiction
  • The Capital of the Ruins (1946)
• Notes on the Texts
• Bibliography of Short Prose in English
• Illustrated Editions of Short Prose

Notes

1. ^ Gontarski, S. E. "From Unabandoned Works: Samuel Beckett's Short Prose" Introduction to The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989. page xiii.