- Dream of Fair to Middling Women
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women 
1993 Arcade editionAuthor(s) Samuel Beckett Country United States Language English Publisher Black Cat Publication date 1993 (written in 1932) Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Pages 241 pp (first edition, paperback) ISBN ISBN 978-0948050091 (first edition, paperback) OCLC Number 27052646 Dream of Fair to Middling Women is Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English "in a matter of weeks" in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. It was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death. The main character Belacqua, a writer and teacher, is very similar to Beckett himself, though a character named "Mr. Beckett" also makes an appearance in the book.
The prose of Samuel Beckett Novels: Dream of Fair to Middling Women • Mercier and Camier • Murphy • Watt • Molloy • Malone Dies • The Unnamable • How It IsShort 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"
Categories:- 1932 novels
- 1992 novels
- Novels by Samuel Beckett
- Novels about writers
- Autobiographical novels
- 1930s novel stubs
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