Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)

Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America)
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The third and final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene Oâ‚¬Neillâ‚¬s dramatic writings (available exclusively from The Library of America) contains eight plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his career.

Oâ‚¬Neill describedÂ Ah, Wilderness!Â as â‚¬Å“the way I would haveÂ likedÂ my boyhood to have been.â‚¬Â Set in the summer of 1906, it affectionately depicts the warm, close family of sixteen-year-old Richard Miller and the innocence with which he faces the trials of first love, strong drink, and sexual temptation.

John Loving, hero ofÂ Days Without End, is split by his lack of faith into two selves: John and his Mephistophelian double Loving, who wears Johnâ‚¬s death mask and plots his destruction. Burdened by guilt but desperately wanting to love, John struggles with Lovingâ‚¬s nihilistic hatred in what Oâ‚¬Neill termed his â‚¬Å“modern miracle play.â‚¬Â

InÂ A Touch of the Poet, Irish tavern-keeper Con Melody is drawn by his proud past as a Byronic cavalry hero of the Napoleonic Wars toward a fatal confrontation with his wealthy Yankee neighbors, the Harfords.

ThroughoutÂ More Stately Mansions, the idealistic yet cunning Simon Harford, his wife, Sara Melody Harford, and his mother, Deborah, continually shift roles and alliances as they engage in an eerie psychological and sexual battle for possession of each other and their own maddeningly elusive dreams. This volume presents the never-before-published complete text of the revised typescript for this unfinished play.

The derelict inhabitants of Harry Hopeâ‚¬s saloon inÂ The Iceman ComethÂ find solace in their comradeship until their drifting calm is destroyed by the visiting salesman Theodore Hickey, who insists that they abandon all â‚¬Å“pipe dreamsâ‚¬Â and face the truth about their lives. Oâ‚¬Neill carefully orchestrates the voices of over a dozen characters to form a chorus of overwhelming despair and surprising compassion.

HughieÂ is a one-act dialogue between a reminiscing gambler and a weary hotel night clerk about the promise and loneliness of city life.

Long Dayâ‚¬s Journey into NightÂ unsparingly dissects the pain, rage, guilt, and love that drive a wounded family apart and bind it together. In their summer home the four Tyronesâ‚¬"James, a proud actor haunted by poverty, his devout, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, and their sons, Jamie, a cynical drunkard, and Edmund, an aspiring poetâ‚¬"slowly unveil the truth about their lives until they can no longer hope either to save or to escape one another. Published and produced posthumously, it won Oâ‚¬Neill his fourth Pulitzer Prize.

In its elegiac coda,Â A Moon for the Misbegotten, Jamie Tyrone seeks the peace that has long eluded him in the arms of sharp-tongued Josie Hogan.

The volume concludes with â‚¬Å“Tomorrowâ‚¬Â (1917), Oâ‚¬Neillâ‚¬s only published short story.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ‚¬s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ‚¬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.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 3 Volumes
Model 3 Volumes
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1988-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780940450509

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	3 Volumes
Model	3 Volumes
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1988-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780940450509