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Eugene O'Neill

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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


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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Average rating: 3.94 · 73,464 ratings · 2,693 reviews · 493 distinct works • Similar authors
Long Day's Journey into Night
4.05 avg rating — 39,762 ratings — published 1956 — 175 editions
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The Iceman Cometh
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3.90 avg rating — 9,758 ratings — published 1946 — 84 editions
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Mourning Becomes Electra
3.98 avg rating — 4,763 ratings — published 1931 — 64 editions
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A Moon for the Misbegotten
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4.02 avg rating — 3,653 ratings — published 1947 — 33 editions
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The Hairy Ape
3.42 avg rating — 2,680 ratings — published 1922 — 119 editions
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Three Plays: Desire Under t...
4.07 avg rating — 1,811 ratings — published 1931 — 15 editions
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The Emperor Jones
3.30 avg rating — 2,143 ratings — published 1920 — 102 editions
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Desire Under the Elms
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3.69 avg rating — 1,581 ratings — published 1924 — 44 editions
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Anna Christie
3.50 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 1921 — 117 editions
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Ah, Wilderness!: A Comedy o...
3.62 avg rating — 786 ratings — published 1934 — 24 editions
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Series by Eugene O'Neill

Complete Plays, 1913–1920 Complete Plays, 1920–1931 Complete Plays, 1932–1943
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Quotes by Eugene O'Neill  (?)
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“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

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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, 1990, 466 pages
 
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Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, 1952, 231 pages
 
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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 1915, 407 pages
 
  21 votes, 7.7%

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