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Old Dogs Remembered
Eugene O'Neill, James Thurber, ...
Synergistic Publications, 1999
Who can forget?
Old Dogs Remembered is a wonderful collection that reflects on the joy of being owned by a dog and being the object of unquestioning devotion. While it is the collected remembrances and obituaries for famous people's dogs long past, it also focuses the reader on the ...
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill
Yale University Press, 2006
RE: Discovery
Sometimes plays are rediscovered after what seems to be utter failure, a valuable insight for all, I think. O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten was rejected by pre-Broadway audiences in Michigan and Ohio in the 1940s, effectively preventing the play from having a ...
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Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
Vintage, 1995
Three great and rarely performed plays by Eugene O'Neill
One of these three great plays by Eugene O'Neill is Strange Interlude which was written in 1923 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 when it originally ran on Broadway. Its running time is over four hours and it is usually performed with a dinner break. It is a ...
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Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)
Eugene O'Neill
Library of America, 1988
America's greatest plywright at his best!
This collection of work gives the reader O'Neill, America's greatest playwright, at his most powerful. The two earlier collections are likewise great, but this third one contains his two strongest works: "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night." In ...
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The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
Yale University Press, 2006
Lying to Live
O'Neill's intense play, The Iceman Cometh, is a character-driven philosophical rumination upon the entwined nature of hope and self-deception. To participate in forgetfulness, it seems, we must be willing to indulge our lies and those of our pals. If we do this ...
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
Yale University Press, 2002
As Good As It Gets
I had a friend once tell me that he had just read this play and had decided it was overrated. From that point on, I never considered anything he had to say very important. He had pretty much revealed his inner workings and I saw him for the ignoramus he is. I have read ...
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The Last Will & Testament of a Very Distinguished Dog
Eugene O'Neill
Henry Holt and Co., 1999
Gift for the mourning owner
I, unfortunately, have bought this book about 12 times. I buy this as a gift whenever someone close loses a dog from their family. Anyone who has lost a canine member of the family can use this book, it becomes personal to anyone.
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Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1920-1931 (Library of America)
Eugene O'Neill
Library of America, 1988
Classics Revisited
This exquisite collection of Eugene O'Neill's later works is worth the beautifully bound edition from the Library of America. Including some of the most enduring examples of american playwrighting excellence and some little-known gems, this collection is a ...
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Three Great Plays: The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape (Dover Thrift Editions)
Eugene O'Neill
Dover Publications, 2005
Winner of the Nobel prize for literature and 4 Pulitzer prizes, Eugene O'Neill is generally acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. The Emperor Jones is an expressionistic play much-admired for its powerful psychological portrayal of brute power, fear, and madness. The Hairy Ap e combines elements of class struggle and surreal tragedy. ...
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Desire Under The Elms
Eugene O'Neill
Players Press, 2008
Eugene O'Neill's tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons dissaprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune. What follows is a tragedy of epic proportions.
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Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill, A. R. Gurney
Signet Classics, 1998
A Quartet of Great Theatrical Extremes
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) is generally considered the greatest American playwright of the 20th Century. Today casual readers and playgoers are most likely to know his work through two plays written in the early 1940s: the celebrated The Iceman Cometh and the Pulitzer ...
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Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1913-1920 (Library of America)
Eugene O'Neill
Library of America, 1988
The development of a writer
This is a tremendous source work, providing a sequential study of O'Neill's development as a dramatist. While not all of the plays are particularly successful, they reveal themes and settings that would provide the foundation for the later O'Neill masterworks. And ...
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The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'Neill
Players Press, 2007
Welcome to the Emperor's nightmare
"The Emperor Jones," by Eugene O'Neill, is a striking work by one of America's most significant dramatists. A bibliographic note in the Dover edition states that the play was first performed in 1920 and published in 1921. It's a one-act play in 8 scenes. The play tells ...
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Hughie.
Eugene O'Neill
Dramatist's Play Service, 1998
Lengthy observation into humanity
Eugene O'Neill died in 1953 and was an honored man with three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the Nobel Prize for Literature. This lengthy play, written in late 40s was performed in mid 60s. Although not his most celebrated play, Hughie reads more like a short story or ...
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Four Plays By Eugene O'Neill (Signet Classics)
Eugene O'Neill
Signet Classics, 2007
Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with destiny.
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