The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions

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Edited by Paul Auster this fourvolume set of Becketts canon has been designed by award winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually as well as in a boxed set the four hardcover volumes have been specially bound with covers featuring images central to Becketts works. Typographical errors that remained uncorrected in the various prior editions have now been corrected in consultation with Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski. "I am always deeply puzzled when people say of Beckett Oh hes so difficult!or avant garde or complex or . . . ambiguous. It is the profoundest nonsense for Beckett is perhaps the most naturalistic playwright I know of as well as the clearest and least obscure. The obscurity resides in the assumption of obscurity. I know that if Becketts outdoor plays were set on suburban terraces and the indoor ones just inside those terraces in suburban living rooms everyone would be the wiser certainly the less puzzled. We are most comfortable with the familiar." Edward Albee from his Introduction.