Contained within this volume are some of the best of ONeills 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 ONeills 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; Annas 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 ships fireman becomes disillusioned concerning the work he performs in a s
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