Eugene O'Neill (Author of Long Day鈥檚 Journey into Night)

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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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Average rating: 3.93 · 78,870 ratings · 3,249 reviews · 405 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Long Day鈥檚 Journey into Night 4.05 avg rating — 42,133 ratings — published 1956 — 71 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 — 10,004 ratings — published 1946 — 88 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 3.97 avg rating — 5,075 ratings — published 1931 — 71 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) 4.01 avg rating — 3,919 ratings — published 1947 — 43 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 3.45 avg rating — 3,206 ratings — published 1922 — 132 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 3.33 avg rating — 2,463 ratings — published 1920 — 99 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 4.06 avg rating — 1,970 ratings — published 1931 — 23 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) 3.67 avg rating — 1,900 ratings — published 1924 — 45 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 3.51 avg rating — 1,190 ratings — published 1921 — 108 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 — 823 ratings — published 1934 — 24 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鈥檙e done before you realize it, and once they鈥檙e done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you鈥檇 like to be, and you鈥檝e lost your true self forever.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day鈥檚 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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