Samuel Beckett's rejected 'nightmare' novella sees light of day

The 'lost' book: Cover of 'Echo's Bones' published by Faber & Faber shown alongside a photo of its author, a young Samuel Beckett.

A previously unpublished work entitled Echo’s Bones that was rejected as "a nightmare" by the Irish writer’s editor in 1933 will turn up as a novella.

Echo’s Bones, meant to have been the 11th and concluding story in Samuel Beckett’s early collection More Pricks than Kicks, will be published on its own by Faber & Faber on April 17.