Worstward Ho

Worstward Ho is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett the title of which is a parody of Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho!. Written in English in 1983, it is the penultimate novella by Beckett.

Together with Company and Ill Seen Ill Said, it was collected in the volume Nohow On in 1989.

The prose of Samuel Beckett

Novels:	Dream of Fair to Middling Women Mercier and Camier Murphy Watt Molloy Malone Dies The Unnamable How It Is

Short stories:	“Assumption” “Sedendo et Quiescendo” “Text” “A Case in a Thousand” “First Love” “The Expelled” “The Calmative” “The End” “Texts for Nothing” “From an Abandoned Work” “The Image” “All Strange Away” “Imagination Dead Imagine” “Enough” “Ping” “Lessness” “The Lost Ones” “Fizzles” “Heard in the Dark 1” “Heard in the Dark 2” “One Evening” “As the story was told” “The Cliff” “neither” “Stirrings Still” “Company” “Ill Seen Ill Said” “Worstward Ho”

Short story collections:	More Pricks Than Kicks Stories and Texts for Nothing The Complete Short Prose 1929-1989

Non-fiction:	Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam) Disjecta Proust "The Capital of the Ruins"