The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions Hardcover – March 13, 2006

The book arrived promptly and in “like new” condition.

Beautiful book. Love it. Perfect for a super nice but reasonable priced gift.Beckett: A unique voice and an important writer who captured the post apocalyptic fear, loneliness and humor of the mid to late twentieth century.

I will never buy high-falutin' literature again. Cerebral constipation comes to mind.If you find yourself interested in this fellow's work I suggest you support your local public library.

One of the most beautiful books I have ever read/owned. A comprehensive, luminary, brilliant collection of Beckett thirty-two dramatic works including Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Krapp's Last Tape, Ghost Trio,...but the Clouds..., What Where. Beckett is well known for his Waiting for Godot, but I think, of this brilliant collection, Endgame is superior. His aesthetics in it is both more subliminal and corporeal. And penetrates deep in the mind's soul, where the imaginative is free to roam freely. He is able to in Endgame subverts the limitation of words, and use words to reinforce the concept that there is no limitation to words (as soon as it becomes sound/shadow/breath: basic tools of existence). Whereas, Waiting for Godot focuses language from an existential standpoint. I would have loved to see Footfalls and Ghost Trio in a real theater instead of the theater of the mind because of its strong physicality and interval/spacialness of time. That Time, my favorite of his short short dramatic work, appeals to me because of Beckett's aptitude for fluidity. For the first time, I finally understood not from a theoretical standpoint what it means when language comes to full circle. The language of That Time is poignant because it plays on that concept of circle and motion and movement and materiality on a semantic level. I savored That Time with much delight.

An understated but quite beautiful design astetic provides the perfect frame for Beckett's masterpieces

I ordered the "box set" of all four about a year ago. I had to wait 4 months for it to be delivered but it was worth it. A wonderful collection of his work. I read the play, then watch the DVD on Becket on tape. These books are good quality. Not the best on the planet, but more than acceptable. I am really glad I bought them, and that I okay'd the continuation of the order when Amazon told me of the delay. These books, and the Becket on tape of in the top 3 things I am glad I bought from Amazon.

To all Beckett lovers - this is the ultimate, yet cheap, edition. All plays are there. The only compromise is the quality of the paper.