Beckett manuscript sells for €1.2m

A manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy has sold at auction for just under €1.2m.

Beckett manuscript sells for €1.2m

The six notebooks, complete with the author’s notes and doodles, cover more than 700 pages including passages that were cut from the novel when it was published in 1938.

They were bought by the University of Reading for £962,500.

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