The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 »

Martha Dow Fehsenfeld was authorised to edit Beckett's correspondence in 1985.

Lois More Overbeck is Research Associate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, Atlanta.

This authorised edition with full scholarly apparatus will be welcomed by all scholars of modern literature and drama.

The Washington Post - Michael Dirda

Admirers of Samuel Beckett, arguably the greatest writer in English of the second half of the 20th century, have grown used to waiting for Godot, who will surely come tomorrow or, just possibly, the day after. In the meantime, these similarly anticipated letters have quite definitely arrived, and in an edition more sumptuous than one ever imagined.

General introduction; French translator's preface George Craig; German translator's preface Viola Westbrook; Editorial procedures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Abbreviations; Introduction to Volume I; Letters; Appendix; Profiles; Bibliography; Index.