Rejected Beckett story published 80 years on

A lost story by Irish writer Samuel Beckett will go on sale next month — 80 years after it was rejected by his publisher for being a “nightmare” read.

Echo’s Bones was originally commissioned as the final tale of More Pricks Than Kicks, Beckett’s collection of inter-related stories that was published in 1934.

But the Dublin writer’s then publisher, Charles Prentice at Chatto & Windus, rejected the 13,500 -word story for being too obscure and baffling.