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Eugene O'Neill

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

October 16, 1888

Died

November 27, 1953

Genre

Theater

Influences

Maxim Gorki

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American playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill authored Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night , produced in 1956.

He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg pioneered to Americans and first used true American vernacular in his speeches.

His plays involve characters, who, engaging in depraved behavior, inhabit the fringes ...more

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	Long Day’s Journey into Night 4.06 avg rating — 42,511 ratings — published 1956 — 246 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (Foreword) 3.90 avg rating — 10,074 ratings — published 1946 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mourning Becomes Electra 3.98 avg rating — 5,143 ratings — published 1931 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, Stephen A. Black (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 4,002 ratings — published 1947 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hairy Ape 3.47 avg rating — 3,310 ratings — published 1922 — 166 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emperor Jones 3.36 avg rating — 2,545 ratings — published 1920 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Plays: Desire Under the Elms / Strange Interlude / Mourning Becomes Electra 4.07 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1931 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill, Paul Adelstein (Narrator), Orson Bean (Narrator) 3.69 avg rating — 1,983 ratings — published 1924 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anna Christie 3.52 avg rating — 1,221 ratings — published 1921 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ah, Wilderness! 3.62 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 1934 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Eugene O'Neill (?)

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

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“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

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“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”
― Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown and Other Plays

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March 2022 New School Classic Group Read

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1926, 189 pages

69 votes, 25.7%

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, 1983, 138 pages

44 votes, 16.4%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 444 pages

39 votes, 14.6%

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, 1990, 466 pages

26 votes, 9.7%

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, 1952, 231 pages

24 votes, 9.0%

The Price of Salt/The Price of Salt: Or Carol by Patricia Highsmith/Claire Morgan, 1952, 292 pages

23 votes, 8.6%

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, 1956, 179 pages

22 votes, 8.2%

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 1915, 407 pages

21 votes, 7.8%

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