{"id":885,"date":"2013-07-24T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/beckett-novel-murphy"},"modified":"2013-07-24T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:33:57","slug":"beckett-novel-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/entertainment\/books\/beckett-novel-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckett Novel Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week at Sotheby&#8217;s London, one of the most important 20th century working manuscripts remaining in private hands &#8211; Samuel Beckett&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;Murphy&#8221; was sold for \u00a3962,500 to the University of Reading. Handwritten in six exercise books between August 1935 and June 1936, whilst Beckett was undergoing psychoanalysis, the manuscript, initially entitled &#8220;Sasha Murphy&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booknspire.com\/beckett-novel-murphy\">Beckett Novel Murphy<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booknspire.com\">BooknSpire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booknspire.com\/beckett-novel-murphy\">BooknSpire\u00bb UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at Sotheby&#8217;s London, one of the most important 20th century working manuscripts remaining in private hands &#8211; Samuel Beckett&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;Murphy&#8221; was sold for \u00a3962,500 to the University of Reading. Handwritten in six exercise books between August 1935 and June 1936, whilst Beckett was undergoing psychoanalysis, the manuscript, initially entitled &#8220;Sasha Murphy&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[1246,1248,1247],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-beckett","tag-murphy","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}