Eugene O''Neill: Complete Plays Vol. 3 1932-1943 (LOA #42) (Library of America Eugene O''Neill Edition) Book Information:

final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene ONeills 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.ONeill describedAh, Wilderness!as the way I would havelikedmy boyhood to have been. 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 ofDays Without End, is split by his lack of faith into two selves: John and his Mephistophelian double Loving, who wears Johns death mask and plots his destruction. Burdened by guilt but desperately wanting to love, John struggles with Lovings nihilistic hatred in what ONeill termed his modern miracle play.InA 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.ThroughoutMore 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 Hopes saloon inThe Iceman Comethfind solace in their comradeship until their drifting calm is destroyed by the visiting salesman Theodore Hickey, who insists that they abandon all pipe dreams and face the truth about their lives. ONeill carefully orchestrates the voices of over a dozen characters to form a chorus of overwhelming despair and surprising compassion.Hughieis a one-act dialogue between a reminiscing gambler and a weary hotel night clerk about the promise and loneliness of city life.Long Days Journey into Nightunsparingly dissects the pain, rage, guilt, and love that drive a wounded family apart and bind it together. In their summer home the four TyronesJames, a proud actor haunted by poverty, his devout, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, and their sons, Jamie, a cynical drunkard, and Edmund, an aspiring poetslowly 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 ONeill his fourth 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 with Tomorrow (1917), ONeills only published short story.LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas 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.

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