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Six Plays

Bound East for Cardiff, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night
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When Eugene O’Neill was conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, the award committee praised “the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions” of the American playwright’s dramatic works, which remain topical and preserve their resonance to this day. This extensive selection includes six of O’Neill’s most... Read More
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This annotated edition brings together six of O’Neill’s most famous works: Bound East for Cardiff, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night. It contains an introduction by Herman Daniel Farrell III, President of the Eugene O’Neill International Society (US).

This annotated edition brings together six of O’Neill’s most famous works: Bound East for Cardiff, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night. It contains an introduction by Herman Daniel Farrell III, President of the Eugene O’Neill International Society (US).

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When Eugene O’Neill was conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936, the award committee praised “the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions” of the American playwright’s dramatic works, which remain topical and preserve their resonance to this day.

This extensive selection includes six of O’Neill’s most famous and performed works for the stage, from the early one-act play Bound East for Cardiff and the 1920 tragedy The Emperor Jones, to the expressionist play The Hairy Ape, first produced in 1922, through to the dramatic masterpieces of his mature period in the 1930s and 1940s: Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night. Together, these plays cement O’Neill’s place as one of the foremost realist playwrights, alongside Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781847499226

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 November 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Alma Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 384

About the Author

Born in New York City, Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) was a prolific author of tragedies and the recipient of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best remembered today for Mourning Becomes Electra and Long Day’s Journey into Night.

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