The Grove Complete Four Volume Set - Samuel Beckett (Grove Press, New York, Centenary Edition)
The Grove Complete Four Volume Set - Samuel Beckett (Grove Press, New York, Centenary Edition)
This complete four-volume Grove Centenary Edition of Samuel Beckett is of interest to collectors of Samuel Beckett, 20th century modernist literature, and landmark collected editions — with introductions by Paul Auster (Series Editor), Edward Albee (Vol. III), and Salman Rushdie (Vol. IV).
About: Near Fine complete set of all four volumes in Near Fine jackets; each volume in the distinctive Grove Press design — bold blue and black ground with minimalist graphic motifs and silver lettering; all four jackets bright and sound with only the lightest rubbing to extremities; bindings firm and square; pages clean and bright throughout; an exceptional and complete set of the definitive collected edition of Beckett's works, published to mark the centenary of his birth.
Details:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- Series Editor: Paul Auster
- Publisher: Grove Press, New York
- Edition: The Grove Centenary Edition
- Volumes: Complete set of four
- Vol. I — Novels: Murphy · Watt · Mercier and Camier
- Vol. II — Novels: Molloy · Malone Dies · The Unnamable · How It Is
- Vol. III — Dramatic Works: Waiting for Godot · Endgame · All That Fall · Act Without Words I & II · Embers · Krapp's Last Tape · Happy Days · Play · Film · Come and Go · Eh Joe · Breath · Not I · That Time · Footfalls · Ghost Trio · ...but the clouds... · A Piece of Monologue · Rockaby · Ohio Impromptu · Quad · Catastrophe · Nacht und Träume · What Where — Introduction by Edward Albee
- Vol. IV — Poems, Short Fiction, Criticism — Introduction by Salman Rushdie
- Binding: Hardcover — four volumes
- Condition: Near Fine (all four volumes)
- Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (all four jackets; light rubbing to extremities only)
Synopsis: Grove Press, New York; complete four-volume Grove Centenary Edition; Series Editor Paul Auster; introductions by Edward Albee (Vol. III) and Salman Rushdie (Vol. IV); distinctive blue and black minimalist jacket designs; the definitive collected edition of Beckett's novels, dramatic works, poems, short fiction, and criticism; appealing to collectors of Beckett, modernist literature, and landmark collected editions.
Review: The Grove Centenary Edition, published by Grove Press to mark the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth in 1906, is the definitive collected edition of his works in English — gathering his complete novels, dramatic works, poems, short fiction, and criticism across four handsomely designed volumes under the editorship of Paul Auster. Beckett is the towering figure of post-war European literature: Nobel Laureate, author of Waiting for Godot and the Trilogy, and the writer who more than any other redefined what literature could do with silence, failure, and the irreducible persistence of human consciousness. The introductions by Edward Albee and Salman Rushdie — two of the writers most directly shaped by Beckett's example — add further distinction to an already landmark publication. A complete Near Fine set of this edition is increasingly difficult to find and represents the finest available collected Beckett for any serious library.