| Description |
xi, 569 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-554) and index. |
| Contents |
The Irish luck kid -- "Life is a tragedy-- hurrah!" -- The ghosts at the stage door. The treasures of Monte Cristo ; School days of an apostate ; Anarchist in the tropics ; Exorcism in New York ; Return to Monte Cristo ; The (love) sick apprentice ; It takes a village -- "To be an artist or nothing." Washed ashore at land's end ; Below Washington Square ; "Turn back the universe" ; "The town is yours" ; Civilization unmasked ; The theatre F(r)eud -- "The Broadway show shop." Prometheus unbound ; Draining bitter cups ; Note to the Ku Klux Klan ; "God's hard, not easy" ; The novelist behind the mask "Old Doc" at Loon Lodge ; The soliloquy is dead! Long live-- what? -- Full fathom five. Uncharted seas ; L'Aeschylus du Plessis ; The Prodigal returns ; "The game isn't worth the candle" ; Pandora's box ; The tyranny of time ; silence's end ; "There's a lot to be said for being dead" -- Journey into light -- Appendix. Selected chronology of works (date completed). |
| Summary |
"A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
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Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama.
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| ISBN |
9780300170337 (hardback) |
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0300170335 (hardback) |
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