LONDON " Sotheby's says the manuscript of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's first novel has sold at auction for almost 1 million pounds ($1.5 million).Britain's University of Reading bought "Murphy," written in 1935-36, for 962,500 pounds ($1.4 million) at Wednesday's sale.The six exercise books contain the heavily reworked text of the novel as well as notes, doodles and sketches of figures including James Joyce and Char…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:31AM on July 10, 2013