Written in French and first performed at the Th��tre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot . It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first published by Faber in 1956. To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber are now publishing for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece. Subtitled 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice'. Waiting for Godot is also a play that was written twice. Here, on facing pages, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.

《鲁滨孙历险记》中鲁滨孙出身于中产阶级，他父亲常用知足常乐的哲学教育他，要他满足现状。但他还是抵挡不住海外新世界的诱惑，几次三番地出海闯荡，终于有一次被困在了一个荒岛上。二十八年的孤岛生活仍然未能阻止他的冒险精神，他凭着坚韧的毅力，在荒岛上造房子、修田地、种粮食、养牲畜，硬是把荒岛建成了一个世外桃源，最后终于脱险，返回了欧洲。