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Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays: 1932-1943 (Volume III of the three-volume LOA edition of the Complete Plays of Eugene O'Neill)
O'Neill, Eugene; Travis Bogard wrote the Notes & selected the Texts for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Slipcase. 1st Edition. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: NEW First Edition (Orig. 1988) First Printing LOA hardcover, EXCELLENT LOA slipcase w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & w/ VERY GOOD edges & corners but showing slight shelf-dust soiling…, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.65 kg, 1007 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.76 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume III of III: 1932-1943: Ah, Wilderness! (1), Days Without End (109), A Touch of the Poet (181), More Stately Mansions (283), The Iceman Cometh (561), Long Day's Journey into Night (713), Hughie (829), A Moon for the Misbegotten (853), Appendix: Tomorrow (947), Chronology (969), Note on the Texts (991), Notes (998) * ABOUT THE BOOK: The third & final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O'Neill's dramatic writings (available exclusively from The LOA) contains 8 plays written between 1932 and 1943, when illness forced him to stop writing. They represent the crowning achievements of his career. O'Neill described 'Ah, Wilderness!' as "the way I would have liked my boyhood to have been." Set in the summer of 1906, it affectionately depicts the warm, close family of 16-year-old Richard Miller & the innocence w/ which he faces the trials of first love, strong drink, & sexual temptation. John Loving, hero of 'Days Without End', is split by his lack of faith into two selves: John & his Mephistophelian double Loving, who wears John's death mask & plots his destruction. Burdened by guilt but desperately wanting to love, John struggles with Loving's nihilistic hatred in what O'Neill termed his "modern miracle play." In '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 w/ his wealthy Yankee neighbors, the Harfords. Throughout 'More Stately Mansions', the idealistic yet cunning Simon Harford, his wife, Sara Melody Harford, & his mother, Deborah, continually shift roles & alliances as they engage in an eerie psychological & sexual battle for possession of each other & 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 Hope's saloon in 'The Iceman Cometh' find solace in their comradeship until their drifting calm is destroyed by the visiting salesman Theodore Hickey, who insists that they abandon all "pipe dreams" & face the truth about their lives. O'Neill carefully orchestrates the voices of over a dozen characters to form a chorus of overwhelming despair & surprising compassion. 'Hughie' is a one-act dialogue between a reminiscing gambler & a weary hotel night clerk about the promise & loneliness of city life. 'Long Day's Journey into Night' unsparingly dissects the pain, rage, guilt, & love that drive a wounded family apart & bind it together. In their summer home the four Tyrones (James, a proud actor haunted by poverty, his devout, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, & their sons, Jamie, a cynical drunkard, & Edmund, an aspiring poet) 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 O'Neill his 4th Pulitzer Prize. In its elegiac coda, '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 w/ "Tomorrow" (1917), O'Neill's only published short story. * SHIPPING: Free Domestic USPS MEDIA MAIL.
Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1913-1941: Volumes I-III of the Complete Library of America edition of the Complete Plays of Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill, Eugene; Travis Bogard (editor) wrote the Notes & selected the Texts for these three volumes
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Slipcase. 1st Edition. GREATNESS !!! FUNDAMENTAL: NEW First Edition (Orig.1988-19) First Printing LOA hardcovers, all in EXCELLENT LOA slipcases w/ double-ruled gilt borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green Brillia…nta silk-finish rayon-weave fabric-over-boards covers w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophons handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interiors printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * VOLUME I: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.52", 0.76 kg, 1192 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.88 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume I of III: 1913-1920: A Wife for a Life (1), The Web (13), Thirst (29), Recklessness (53), Warnings (75), Fog (95), Bread & Butter (113), Bound East for Cardiff (185), Abortion (201), The Movie Man (221), Servitude (235), The Sniper (293), The Personal Equation (309), Before Breakfast (389), Now I Ask You (399), In the Zone (469), Ile (489), The Long Voyage Home (507), The Moon of the Caribbees (525), The Rope (545), Beyond the Horizon (571), Shell Shock (655), The Dreamy Kid (673), Where the Cross is Made (693), The Straw (713), Chris Christopherson (795), Gold (891), "Anna Christie" (957), The Emperor Jones (1029); Chronology (1063), Note on the Texts (1085), Notes (1095). VOLUME II (Orig. 19): 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.72 kg, 1092 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.50" x 1.58"; 0.82 kg, 1092 pp. * CONTENTS: Complete Plays 1920-31: Diff'rent (1), The First Man (55), The Hairy Ape (119), The Fountain (165), Welded (233), All Got's Chillun Got Wings (277), Desire Under the Elms (317), Marco Millions (379), The Great God Brown (469), Lazarus Laughed (537), Strange Interlude (629), Dynamo (819), Mourning becomes Electra (887); Chronology (1055), Note on the Texts (1077), Notes (1083) VOLUME III: 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.42", 0.65 kg, 1007 pp. Slipcase: 5.36 x 8.36" x 1.68"; 0.76 kg * CONTENTS: Complete Plays: Eugene O'Neill: Volume III of III: 1932-1943: Ah, Wilderness! (1), Days Without End (109), A Touch of the Poet (181), More Stately Mansions (283), The Iceman Cometh (561), Long Day's Journey into Night (713), Hughie (829), A Moon for the Misbegotten (853), Appendix: Tomorrow (947), Chronology (969), Note on the Texts (991), Notes (998) * THE COMPLETE THREE VOLUME SET: 5.36 x 8.36" x 4.94", 2.46 kg, 1192+1092+1007 (3291) pp * ABOUT EUGENE O'NEILL (1888-1953) is one of the most significant forces in the history of American theater. W/ no uniquely American tradition to guide him, O'Neill introduced various dramatic techniques, which subsequently became staples of the U.S. theater. By 1914 he had written 12 one-act and 2 long plays. Of this early work, only "Thirst and Other One-act plays" (1914) was originally published. From this point on, O'Neill's work falls roughly into 3 phases to which the three volumes of this SUPERB complete edition approximately correspond: Volume I: the early plays, written from 1913 to 1921 ("The Long Voyage Home", "The Moon of the Caribbees", "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie"); Volume II: a variety of full-length plays for Broadway ("Desire Under the Elms"; "Great God Brown"; "Ah, Wilderness!"); & Volume III: the last, great plays, written between 1938 & his death ( "The Iceman Cometh", "Long Day's Journey Into Night", "A Moon for the Misbegotten"). Eugene O'Neill is a 4-time Pulitzer Prize winner, & he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1936. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing authoritative texts of America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). SHIPPING: Free USPS MEDIA MAIL.
