Delphi Collected Works of Eugene O'Neill

by Eugene O'Neill, Delphi Classics (editor)

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, the American playwright Eugene O’Neill was the first to introduce into the US the drama techniques of realism, associated with Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg. His masterpiece, ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’, is regarded as one of the greatest works of American drama. O’Neill saw the theatre as a valid forum for the presentation of serious ideas. Imbued with the tragic sense of life, he produced a contemporary drama that had its roots in powerful ancient Greek tragedies. This eBook presents O’Neill’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and poetry, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to O’Neill’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 21 full-length plays in the US public domain, with individual contents tables
* Features rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* 20 one-act plays
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare poems available in no other collection
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes O’Neill’s sole short story
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Full-Length Plays
Bread and Butter (1914)
Servitude (1914)
The Personal Equation (1915)
Now I Ask You (1916)
Beyond the Horizon (1918)
The Straw (1919)
Chris Christophersen (1919)
Gold (1920)
Anna Christie (1920)
The Emperor Jones (1920)
Diff’rent (1921)
The First Man (1922)
The Hairy Ape (1922)
The Fountain (1923)
Marco Millions (1923)
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1924)
Welded (1924)
Desire under the Elms (1924)
Lazarus Laughed (1925)
The Great God Brown (1926)
Strange Interlude (1928)

The One-Act Plays
Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
In the Zone (1917)
The Long Voyage Home (1917)
Moon of the Caribbees (1918)
A Wife for a Life (1913)
The Web (1913)
Thirst (1913)
Recklessness (1913)
Warnings (1913)
Fog (1914)
Abortion (1914)
The Movie Man (1914)
The Sniper (1915)
Before Breakfast (1916)
Ile (1917)
The Rope (1918)
Shell Shock (1918)
The Dreamy Kid (1918)
Where the Cross Is Made (1918)
Exorcism (1919)

The Short Story
Tomorrow (1917)

The Poetry
The Poems of Eugene O’Neill

Genres: Plays

3071 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 14, 2024

About the author

American playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill authored Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night , produced in 1956.

He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg pioneered to Americans and first used true American vernacular in his speeches.

His plays involve characters, who, engaging in depraved behavior, inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote Ah, Wilderness! , his only comedy: all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.