Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/1995
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679763956
- Item number:
- 12139136
- Volume:
- 210 Pages
- Weight:
- 240 g
- Format:
- 203 x 132 mm
- Thickness:
- 12 mm
- Release date:
- 31.10.1995
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Winner of the Nobel Prize
This edition includes Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape three classic plays of uncontested power from the Nobel laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for drama.
In Anna Christie, a sailor reunites with his estranged daughter after years apart. As she begins to fall in love with a younger sailor, she realizes she must come clean to her father and her new love interest and reveal her troubled past.
In The Emperor Jones, African American fugitive, Brutus Jones, recounts his life through a series of flashbacks as he runs from rebelling subjects through a West Indies Jungle, showing just how he came to rule over a small island, and his eventual downfall.
In The Hairy Ape, O'Neil explores class and identity as he follows the existential crisis of Yank, an engine worker for an ocean liner. After being called a beast from the daughter of a rich industrialist, Yank realizes he has no place in modern society, or even a class he can call his own.
William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Thomas Mann, Doris Lessing, Albert Camus, V. S. Naipaul, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, and Cormac McCarthy, among many others: Vintage International is devoted to publishing the best writing of the past century from the world over. Offering both classic and modern fiction and literary nonfiction in elegant editions, Vintage International aims to provide readers with world-class writing that has stood the test of time and essential works by the preeminent authors of today.
Biography
Der US-amerikanische Dramatiker Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, geb. am 16.10.1888 in New York, wurde wegen seiner Darstellung der dunkleren Aspekte des menschlichen Seins bekannt. Häufig zeigen seine Stücke Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft oder beginnen in einer Situation voller Stumpfsinn und Verzweiflung, aus der sich makabre Dramen entwickeln. 1929 zog O'Neill nach Frankreich in das Tal der Loire, wo er im Chateau du Plessis in St. Antoine-du-Rocher lebte. Als erster amerikanischer Dramatiker wurde er 1936 'für die Kraft, Ehrlichkeit und tiefempfundenen Gefühle in seinem dramatischen Werk, das eine eigenständige Idee der Tragödie verkörpert' mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Er starb am 27. November 1953 in Boston.
