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Bibliography Bibliography Admussen, Richard, The Samuel Beckett Manuscripts: a Study, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1979. Aldington, Richard, Life for Life’s Sake: a Book of Reminiscences, Cassell, London, 1968. Armstrong, Gordon S, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats and Jack Yeats: Images and Words, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, 1990. Arnold, Bruce, Jack Yeats, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998. Aslan, Odette, Roger Blin, La Manufacture, Paris, 1990. Atik, Anne, How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett, Faber and Faber, London, 2001. Bailey, Kenneth C, A History of Trinity College Dublin 1892–1945, Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd, Dublin, 1947. Bair, Deirdre, Samuel Beckett: a Biography, Jonathan Cape, London, 1978. Bald, Wambly, On The Left Bank 1929–1933, edited by Benjamin Franklin V, Ohio University Press, Athens, 1987. Beach, Sylvia, Shakespeare and Company, Faber and Faber, London, 1960. 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