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Library of America Eugene o'Neill Edition Ser.: Eugene O'Neill Vol. 1 : Complete Plays Vol. 1 1913-1920 (LOA #40) by Eugene O'Neill (1988, Hardcover)
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The only American dramatist awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene O'Neill wrote with poetic expressiveness, emotional intensity, and immense dramatic power. This Library of America volume (the first in a three-volume set) contains twenty-nine plays he wrote between 1913, when he began his career, and 1920, the year he first achieved Broadway success. Many of O'Neill's early plays are one-act melodramas whose characters are caught in extreme situations. Thirst and Fog depict shipwreck survivors, The Web a young mother trapped in the New York underworld, and Abortion the aftermath of a college student's affair with a stenographer. His first distinctive works are four one-act plays about the crew of the tramp steamer Glencairn that render sailors' speech with masterful faithfulness. Bound East for Cardiff , In the Zone , The Long Voyage Home , and The Moon of the Caribbees portray these "children of the sea" as they watch over a dying man, sail though submarine-patrolled waters, take their shore leave in a London dive, and drink rum in a moonlit tropical anchorage. In Beyond the Horizon Robert Mayo begins a tragic chain of events by abandoning his dream of a life at sea, choosing instead to marry the woman his brother loves and remain on his family farm. The sea in "Anna Christie" is both "dat ole devil" to coal barge captain Chris Christopherson and a source of spiritual cleansing to his daughter Anna, an embittered prostitute. When a swaggering stoker falls in love with her, Anna becomes the apex of a three-sided struggle full of enraged pride, grim foreboding, and stubborn hope. Both of these plays won the Pulitzer Prize and helped establish O'Neill as a successful Broadway playwright. The Emperor Jones depicts the nightmarish journey through a West Indian forest of Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter turned island ruler. Fleeing his rebellious subjects, Jones confronts his violent deeds and the tortured history of his race in a series of hallucinatory episodes whose expressionist quality anticipates many of O'Neill's later plays. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-100940450488
ISBN-139780940450486
eBay Product ID (ePID)618393
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicTheater / Playwriting, American / General, Drama, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
AuthorEugene O'Neill
Dimensions
Item Length8.1in
Item Height1.3in
Item Weight24.2 Oz
Item Width5.2in
Additional Product Features
Book TitleEugene O'neill Vol. 1 : Complete Plays Vol. 1 1913-1920 (Loa #40)
Lccn88-050685
Series Volume Number1
Intended AudienceTrade
Lc Classification NumberPs3529.N5 1988
Publication Year1988
SeriesLibrary of America Eugene O'neill Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Grade fromTwelfth Grade
Number of Pages1100 Pages
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