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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Biography:
Born 1888 in New York City. Son of the actor
James O'Neill, and as a boy often toured with his father. Attended
Princeton from 1906 to 1907. Became a stage manager for his father in
1910, then traveled to Buenos Aires as a sailor and laborer in 1911.
Returned in 1912 to pursue an acting career but developed tuberculosis in
1912 and was committed to a
sanatorium. While there he began to write plays.
Briefly attended Harvard from 1914 to 1915. By 1916, he was associated
with the Provincetown Players, and they performed many of his plays. He
was a restless man, suffering from depression and was later diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease. Lived for a while in New York City, California, and
Boston.
His passionate writings were
derived from his own obsessions, pain, and spiritual quest. Examples are Desire
Under the Elms (1924), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), The
Iceman Cometh (1946), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956).
Was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936. Died in |
Anna Christie
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Beyond the Horizon
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pages unabrid edition (June 1996) $1.20
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Conversations With Eugene O'Neill
Hardcover - 242
pages (December 1990) $39.50
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The Emperor Jones
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pages (February 1997) $1.20
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The Emperor Jones,'Anna
Christie, The Hairy Ape
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pages (November 1995) $8.80
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Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1913-1920
Hardcover - Vol 1
(November 1988) $28.00
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Eugene O'Neill:
Complete Plays 1920-1931
Hardcover Vol 2
(November 1988) $28.00
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Eugene O'Neill:
Complete Plays 1932-1943
Hardcover Vol 3
(November 1988) $24.50
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Eugene O'Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle:
A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed
Hardcover - 320
pages (September 1998) $40.00
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Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill:
Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape
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Hughie
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The Iceman Cometh:
A Play
The place: A cheap gin-mill in New York
City. The time: a salesman's birthday celebration during the summer of
1912 when the delineation between hopes, dreams and pipe dreams
disintegrates when "self-knowledge" destroys self-respect,
compassion and life.
"Tragedy in four acts by Eugene O'neill,
written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946. Considered by many to
be his finest work, the drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope
as antidotes to the natural condition of despair. O'Neill mined the
tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a ragged collection of
alcoholics in a rundown New York tavern-hotel run by Harry Hope. The
saloon regulars numb themselves with whiskey and make grandiose plans, but
they do nothing. They await the arrival of big-spending Theodore Hickman
("Hickey"), who forces his cronies to pursue their
much-discussed plans, hoping that real failure will make them face
reality. Hickey finally confesses that he killed his long-suffering wife
just hours before he arrived at Harry's, and he turns himself in to the
police. The others slip back into an alcoholic haze, clinging to their
dreams once more." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)
Paperback (June 1967) $7.20
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Long Days Journey into Night
This work is interesting enough for its
history. Completed in 1940, Long Day's Journey Into Night is an
autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that - because of the highly
personal writing about his family - was not to be released until 25 years
after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate
family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the
play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its
own right. It tells of the "Tyrones" - a fictional name for what
is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son
(Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises
his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his
older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn
O'Neill into who he was - a tormented individual and a brilliant
playwright.
"This was the environment, respectably
middle class on the surface, obsessed and tortured inside, out of which
our most gigantic writer of tragedy emerged." (Brooks Atkinson, The
New York Times Book Review)
"Drama in four acts by Eugene O'neill,
written 1939-41 and produced and published, posthumously, in 1956. The
play, which is considered an American masterpiece, was awarded a Pulitzer
Prize in 1957. O'Neill's autobiographical play is a shattering depiction
of a day in the dreary life of a couple and their two sons. James Tyrone,
a semiretired actor, is vain and miserly; his wife Mary feels worthless
and retreats into a morphine-induced haze. Jamie, their older son, is a
bitter alcoholic. James refuses to acknowledge the illness of his
consumptive younger son, Edmund. As Mary sinks into hallucination and
madness, father and sons confront each other in searing scenes that reveal
their hidden motives and interdependence. O'Neill wrote A Moon for the
Misbegotten (1952) as a sequel, charting the subsequent life of Jamie
Tyrone." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)
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(October 1989) $8.76
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The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays
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A Moon for the
Misbegotten: A Play in Four Acts
The last play of O'Neill - recognized as one
of his greatest theatrical achievements - a unique blend of comedy,
tragedy, autobiography, and imagination.
"The last play that Eugene O'Neill wrote, A Moon for the
Misbegotten was never successful during his lifetime, but has since become
recognized as one of his greatest theatrical achievements - a unique
blend of comedy, tragedy, autobiography and imagination." (from the
back cover)
"Everything about it is so tremendous that it reduces almost every
other modern drama to virtual pettiness." (Richard Watts)
"A beautiful play, possibly O'Neill's
best... The free creative
impulse is allowed more play here than in the directly autobiographical
Long Day's Journey into Night... Life is made on the wing rather than
painstakingly remembered. It is an honest life and, for O'Neill, an
unusually lyric one; the crafty, the damned and the forgiving
breathe." (Walter Kerr)
Paperback - 115 pages
(May 1975) $6.40
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More Stately Mansions
Hardcover - 313
pages (November 1988) $60.00
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Nine Plays
Hardcover
(January 1993) $17.50
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Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill
Paperback - 602
pages Reprint edition (October 1994) $18.95
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Seven Famous Greek Plays
The influence of tragedy on classic comedy is
evident in the increasing preoccupation with subjects that are utopian or
timeless (while) the traditional satire on contemporary events and
personages recedes more and more onto the background.
Paperback (March
1966) $7.20
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Six Short Plays of Eugene O'Neill
"I love life. But I don't love life
because it is pretty. Prettiness is only clothes-deep. I am a truer lover
than that. I love it naked. There is beauty to me even in its ugliness. In
fact, I deny the ugliness entirely, for its vices are often nobler than
its virtues, and nearly always closer to a revelation... To me, the
tragic alone has that significant beauty which is truth. It is the meaning
of life - and the hope. The noblest is eternally the most tragic. The
people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the
spiritual middle-classers. Their stopping at success is the proof of their
compromising insignificance. How petty their dreams must have
been!"(Eugene O'Neill, from the biography by Barbara and Arthur
Gelb)
Paperback (March
1965) $10.00
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Ten
"Lost" Plays
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(January 1995) $7.16
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Three Plays:
Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra
These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's
ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds
the depths of his audiences' hearts.
Paperback Reissue
edition (November 1995) $8.80
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Ah, Wilderness!
"Comedy in four acts by Eugene O'neill, published and first performed
in 1933. Perhaps the most atypical of the author's works, the play
presents a sentimental tale of youthful indiscretion in a
turn-of-the-century New England town. Richard, adolescent son of the local
newspaper publisher, Nat Miller, exhibits the wayward tendencies of his
maternal uncle, Sid Davis. Forbidden to court the neighbor girl, Muriel,
by her father, Richard goes on a bender and falls under the influence of
Belle, whom he tries to impress but whose worldly ways frighten him. It is
the dissolute Sid who handles the situation upon the prodigal's drunken
return, and with the aid of warmhearted Nat and the forgiving Muriel
everything is put to right. The play has since become a staple of the
community-theater repertoire." (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of
Literature)
Paperback (June 1979) $5.50
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Beyond the Horizon and
The Emperor Jones
In his first full-length play, Beyond the
Horizon, a man marries the former lover of his brother, who has gone
to sea, while in The Emperor Jones, former car porter and murderer
Brutus Jones sets himself up as the ruler of a West Indies island.
Reissue.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Eugene
O'Neill is one of America's great dramatists. this Bantam Classic edition
includes Beyond the Horizon, his first full-length play and winner of the
1920 Pulitzer Prize as well as The Emperor Jones, one of the first
expressionist plays in America. Reissue.
Paperback (June 1996) $4.95
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Five Modern Plays
Paperback (June
1980) $5.95
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The Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog
The perfect gift for every dog owner. In the early 1940s, famed playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote a moving
piece of prose about his dog, Silverdene Emblem O'Neill (Blemie). In The
Last Will and Testament of an Extremely Distinguished Dog, O'Neill
eloquently and compassionately articulates what all dog owners feel as
their pet nears the end of its life.
O'Neill's elegy has been lovingly restored to print and is beautifully
illustrated by the award-winning quilt maker Adrienne Yorinks. Yorinks
complements the text using twenty-five machine-pieced and hand-stitched
quilts with color photographic transfers of dogs. The Last Will says everything that needs to be said to someone you love
who is losing or has lost a beloved canine friend.
Eugene O'Neill, one of America's greatest playwrights, was the author
of Beyond the Horizon, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into
Night. Adrienne Yorinks is a professional quilt maker whose quilts have
garnered numerous art awards. She is the illustrator of Stand for Children
and lives in New Salem, New York.
Hardcover - 48 pages
1 edition (October 1999) $10.50
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Later Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Paperback (June
1967) $9.25
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