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Eugene O'Neill
Author · 57 books

American playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill authored Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night , produced in 1956. He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg pioneered to Americans and first used true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters, who, engaging in depraved behavior, inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote Ah, Wilderness! , his only comedy: all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.

Series

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Complete Plays, 1932-1943 book cover

Complete Plays, 1932-1943

1988

The Straw book cover

The Straw

1919

Four Plays book cover

Four Plays

1998

A Moon for the Misbegotten book cover

A Moon for the Misbegotten

1947

سه تک‌گویی book cover

سه تک‌گویی

2005

The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays book cover

The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays

1995

Ah, Wilderness! book cover

Ah, Wilderness!

1934

The Iceman Cometh book cover

The Iceman Cometh

1946

Abortion book cover

Abortion

2008

The Moon of the Caribbees book cover

The Moon of the Caribbees

And Six Other Plays of the Sea

1919

The Later Plays book cover

The Later Plays

1967

Four Plays book cover

Four Plays

1958

Diff'rent book cover

Diff'rent

1921

The Fountain book cover

The Fountain

1923

Gold book cover

Gold

A Play in Four Acts

2015

Complete Plays, 1920–1931 book cover

Complete Plays, 1920–1931

1988

Lazarus Laughed book cover

Lazarus Laughed

1927

The First Man book cover

The First Man

1922

Long Day's Journey into Night book cover

Long Day's Journey into Night

1956

The Long Voyage Home book cover

The Long Voyage Home

2004

Strange Interlude book cover

Strange Interlude

1928

The Moon of the Caribbees book cover

The Moon of the Caribbees

1921

Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown book cover

Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown

1958

All God's Chillun Got Wings; [and], Desire Under the Elms; and, Welded

1973

Six Short Plays book cover

Six Short Plays

1965

All God's Chillun Got Wings book cover

All God's Chillun Got Wings

1924

Collected Shorter Plays book cover

Collected Shorter Plays

2007

Days Without End book cover

Days Without End

1934

Ten "Lost" Plays book cover

Ten "Lost" Plays

1942

Tomorrow book cover

Tomorrow

1917

Bound East for Cardiff book cover

Bound East for Cardiff

1916

Dynamo book cover

Dynamo

1929

Hughie book cover

Hughie

1958

A Touch of the Poet - Acting Edition book cover

A Touch of the Poet - Acting Edition

1957

Mourning Becomes Electra book cover

Mourning Becomes Electra

1931

Anna Christie book cover

Anna Christie

1921

The Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neil book cover

The Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neil

1922

The Hairy Ape book cover

The Hairy Ape

1922

Beyond the Horizon book cover

Beyond the Horizon

1920

Ile book cover

Ile

2006

In the Zone & Ile book cover

In the Zone & Ile

1917

Nine Plays book cover

Nine Plays

1932

Exorcism book cover

Exorcism

A Play in One Act

2011

Desire Under the Elms book cover

Desire Under the Elms

1924

The Last Will and Testament of a Very Distinguished Dog book cover

The Last Will and Testament of a Very Distinguished Dog

1940

More Stately Mansions book cover

More Stately Mansions

1964

Early Plays book cover

Early Plays

2001

Marco Millions book cover

Marco Millions

1925

The Emperor Jones book cover

The Emperor Jones

1920

The Great God Brown and Other Plays book cover

The Great God Brown and Other Plays

1963

The Great God Brown book cover

The Great God Brown

1926

All God's Chillun Got Wings & Welded book cover

All God's Chillun Got Wings & Welded

1998

Before Breakfast book cover

Before Breakfast

1925

Complete Plays, 1913-1920 book cover

Complete Plays, 1913-1920

1988

Where the Cross Is Made book cover

Where the Cross Is Made

2010

Three Plays book cover

Three Plays

Desire Under The Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra

1931

الولد الحالم book cover

الولد الحالم

1918

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