Marco Millions, Desire under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, Welded, Dynamo, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA

EUGENE O'NEILL

Published by Boni & Liveright, 1920

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Marco Millions: A Play 1927 First Edition, First PrintingThe quasi-historical and a fabulously legendary Marco Polo and his sojourns in the empire of Kublai Kaan, imperious ruler of Cathay in the 14th century. (The real Marco Polo it is said would recount his adventures in China to the Venetians and nobody would BELIEVE him)Curiously the play was published BEFORE the Broadway show which starred Alfred Lunt as Marco Polo. Desire under the Elms. The Hairy Ape. WeldedFirst Edtion; Fourth Printing 1926. [1925]Dynamo, Horace Liveright, First Edition 1929159 pages unmarked textblockThree acts. Least successful of O'Neill's 1920's plays. Extremely bitter and melodramatic with neighboring families in a feud and the son in love with the daughter of the other. A Dynamo is a machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator. The energy play is the main setting for the third act. (sort of a "Metropolis" style scenery) MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA;A Trilogy Stated second printing; November 1931 Three Plays whose action is continuous: "Homecoming", "The Hunted", and "The Haunted" New England seaport just after the Civil War.They actually were performed together, back to back on the same day, when the play opened in New York, with a break for supper. bluish green with gilt facsimile of O'Neill's signature, bluish green boards Decorated endpapers. No dustjackets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marco Millions, Desire under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, Welded, Dynamo, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
• Publisher: Boni & Liveright
• Publication Date: 1920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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