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This collection contains Eugene O'Neill's first three full-length
plays: BEYOND THE HORIZON, THE EMPEROR JONES, and ANNA CHRISTIE.
BEYOND THE HORIZON:
Winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"...an absorbing, significant, and memorable tragedy...
...a playwright of real power and imagination...
...the play has greatness in it and marks O'Neill as one of our foremost playwrights...."
Alexander Woolcott, Times
"Only once or twice in the course of the dramatic season does a playof such terrific force and such simple directness award the patient theatrical chroniclers..."
Robert Gilbert Welsh, Evening Telegram
"...this season's most notable play of a serious theme and purpose by an American author...."
World
THE EMPEROR JONES:
"...for strength and originality [O'Neill] has no rivals among the American writers for the stage."
Alexander Woolcott, Times
"An odd and extraordinary play, written with imaginative genius..."
Kenneth Macgowan, Globe
"...the most interesting play which has yet come from the most promising playwright in America..."
Heywood Broun, Tribune
ANNA CHRISTIE:
Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"...a rich and salty play that grips the attention with the rise of the first curtain and holds it fiercely to the end....
A play written with that abundant imagination, that fresh and venturesome
mind and that sure instinct for the theatre which set this young author apart...."
Alexander Woollcott, Times
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