Moon for the Misbegotten - Softcover

O'Neill, Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394712366 ISBN 13: 9780394712369

Publisher: Vintage, 1974

Synopsis

The last play of O'Neill - recognized as one of his greatest theatrical achievements - a unique blend of comedy, tragedy, autobiography, and imagination.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The last play that Eugene O'Neill wrote, A Moon for the Misbegotten was never successful during his lifetime, but has since become recognized as one of his greatest theatrical achievements -- a unique blend of comedy, tragedy, autobiography and imagination.

"Everything about it is so tremendous that it reduces almost every other modern drama to virtual pettiness."

-- Richard Watts

"A beautiful play, possibly O'Neill's best....The free creative impulse is allowed more play here than in the directly autobiographical Long Day's Journey into Night....Life is made on the wing rather than painstakingly remembered. It is an honest life and, for O'Neill, an unusually lyric one; the crafty, the damned and the forgiving breathe."

-- Walter Kerr

About the Author:

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was a four times Pulitzer Prize winner and the first American dramatist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote over forty stage plays in a wide variety of genres, among them Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, all successfully revived in recent years and all published by NHB.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0394712366
• ISBN 13: 9780394712369
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 128