Samuel Beckett the Critical Heritage

by Lawrence Graver (Editor ), Raymond Federman (Editor )

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

372 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1978

About the author

Lawrence Stanley Graver was a distinguished scholar and beloved professor of English at Williams College, noted for his work on 19th- and 20th-century English and American literature, contemporary fiction, drama, and American Jewish literature. A veteran of the Korean Conflict, he earned his B.A. at City College of New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his wife, Suzanne Levy. Graver contributed widely to public literary discourse, including influential reviews in the New York Times Book Review, and authored acclaimed books on Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Frank, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Carson McCullers. Renowned for his wit, insight, and generosity, he shaped generations of students and was cherished as a teacher, scholar, husband, father, and grandfather.