Four Plays By Eugene O'neill

Contained Within This Volume Are Some Of The Best Of O'neill's Early Oneact Plays, Which Foreshadowed The Longer Plays That Have Given This Dramatist His Most Enduring Fame'beyond The Horizon' Was The First Of O'neill's Three Pulitzer Prizewinning PlaysIt Follows The Disappointed Dreams Of Two Brothers On Their Family Farm'the Emperor Jones' Is An Expressionistic Transformation Of ABlack Man Named Brutus JonesIn Fleeing From His Rebelling Subjects In The West Indies, Jones Is Taken Back To His Racial Past And Undergoes ANight Of Personal DestructionIn 'anna Christie,' We Find ADrama Focusing On The Relationship Of AYoung Woman And Her Sailor Father, Who Has Not Seen Her For Twenty YearsAs Their Story Unfolds, Anna's Troubled Romantic Past Comes To Light, And The Hardships Of Women During That Time Period Become As Apparent As The Power Of Forgiveness And LoveIn The Final Play In This Collection, 'the Hairy Ape,' AShip's Fireman Becomes Disillusioned Concerning The Work He Performs In ASociety That Is Quickly Industrializing And Taking AHeavy Human Toll.
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