Contained within this volume are some of the best of O'Neill's
early one-act plays, which foreshadowed the longer plays that have
given this dramatist his most enduring fame. "Beyond the Horizon"
was the first of O'Neill's three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. It
follows the disappointed dreams of two brothers on their family
farm. "The Emperor Jones" is an expressionistic transformation of a
black man named Brutus Jones. In fleeing from his rebelling
subjects in the West Indies, Jones is taken back to his racial past
and undergoes a night of personal destruction. In "Anna Christie,"
we find a drama focusing on the relationship of a young woman and
her sailor father, who has not seen her for twenty years. As their
story unfolds, Anna's troubled romantic past comes to light, and
the hardships of women during that time period become as apparent
as the power of forgiveness and love. In the final play in this
collection, "The Hairy Ape," a ship's fireman becomes disillusioned
concerning the work he performs in a society that is quickly
industrializing and taking a heavy human toll.
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