Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays Vol. 3 1932-1943 (Loa #42)

Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Library of America
October 1 1988
EAN: 9780940450509
ISBN: 094045050X
Synopsis: This third and final volume volume of the first complete collection of O'Neill's dramatic writing contains eight plays, including the crowning achievements of his career. From the warmly nostalgic "Ah, Wilderness!, " an uncharacteristically affectionate evocation of the world of his childhood, and "Days Without End," a stark portrayal of spiritual conflict, he moved on to the great culmination of his work for the theater: "A touch of the Poet and more Stately Mansions" included here in it's entirety), parts of an ambitious, uncompleted cycle tracing a complex family drama; "The Iceman Cometh," which brilliantly uses its skid-row tavern setting to pit escapist dreams against tragic realities; the two-character tour de force "Hughie; Long Day's Journey into Night," the devastating portrait of the playwright's own family widely viewed as his masterpiece; and his last play, "A Moon for the Misbegotten"