Description
Very Good dust jacket illustrated with a man looking in a mirror, price clipped, minor edge wear at corners and spine. A mylar dust jacket has been added. Near Fine binding is green cloth over boards with gilt decoration on front, gilt lettering on spine.
The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.7″ tall x 5.8″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
This s the last of Eugene O’Neill’s full-length plays– part of a new cycle he did not live to complete. Here are the themes that harried O’Neill all his life-that of an alien, truculent, posturing Irish stranger in a foreign land; of a man divided in himself and from wife and child; of a hard-drinking, vulnerable man, his bitter pride protecting a myth he has had to make of himself. Now published for the first time, the play has as central character an Irishman, once a its major under the Duke of Wellington, who came to 19th-century Massachusetts to buy a pub–and to complete his failure to match his illusions with reality. O’Neill tells of the complicated emotional web linking the father, his wife, and daughter to one another and to their Yankee and Irish contemporaries. He tells it with passion and pity; no one knew better than he what it was a haunted stranger might be looking for.
The Eugene O’Neill Collection was founded at the Yale University Library in 1931 by Carlotta Monterey O’Neill le includes notes, photographs, and the manuscripts of plays, among them . A TOUCH OF THE POET. All royalties from the sale of the Yale edition of this book and of LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT go to Yale University for the benefit of the Eugene O’Neill Collection, for the purchase of books in the field of drama, and for the possible establishment of Eugene O’Neil Scholarships in the Yale School of Drama.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
EUGENE O’NEILL was born in New York City in 1888 and died in Boston in 1953. He studied at Princeton and Harvard: in 1926 he received an honorary degree from Yale. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1920, 1922, and 1928; the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
