Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's 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 Beckett's 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.
A man speaking English beautifully chooses to speak in French, which he
speaks with greater difficulty, so that he is obliged to choose his
words carefully, forced to give up fluency and to find the hard words
that come with difficulty, and then after all that finding he puts it
all back into English, a new English containing all the difficulty of
the French, of the coining of thought in a second language, a new
English with the power to change English forever. This is Samuel
Beckett. This is his great work. It is the thing that speaks. Surrender.
-- Salman Rushdie, from his Introduction