Publisher's Synopsis
Eugene O'Neill was a prominent American playwright in the 20th century. O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and he also was one of the first American writers of realism. Some of O'Neill's most famous plays include Long Day's Journey into Night, Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, and Morning Becomes Electra. This collection includes the following: The Straw: A semi-autobiographical play with themes such as family life, love, and deception. Anna Christie: A play that earned O'Neill the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922. The action centers around a former prostitute who tries to turn her life around. The First Man: A play that centers around an anthropologist who travels to the Asian Plains to find the "missing link" in mankind's evolution. The Hairy Ape: A play that centers around a working-class brute, known as Yank, who struggles to find his place in the world. Tomorrow: A short story centering around a suicide in a saloon where O'Neill lived in 1911.
