A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Penguin Classic
Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (
The Moon of the Caribbees
,
Bound East for Cardiff
In the Zone
The Long Voyage Home
Ile
Where the Cross Is Made
, and
The Rope
), and five full-length plays (
Beyond the Horizon
The Straw, Anna Christie,
and the classics
The Emperor Jones
and
The Hairy Ape
), all written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. The majority of these plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism—Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Also included in this unique collection is the little-known and highly autobiographical play
The Straw
, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.