Plays by Eugene O'Neill in the Modern Library
Between 1923 and 1990
Eugene O'Neill is American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. He wrote over 50 plays, most full length but quite a few one act plays as well.
The Modern Library catalog, between 1923 and 1990, contained a total of 33 unique plays by Eugene O'Neill. Many of the plays were available in different titles over the years; for example, Emperor Jones was published in The Emperor Jones / The Straw (1928 - 1936), The Emperor Jones / Anna Christie / Hairy Ape (1937 - 1970), Nine Plays by Eugene O'Neill (1941 - 1990), Six Modern American Plays (1951 - 1975), and The Plays of Eugene O'Neill Volume 1 (1982 - 1990). The ML catalog does not contain Long Day's Journey into Night, which is considered by some to be his masterpiece. A list of ML editions of Eugene O'Neill, along with a link to a biography, are available on his author page.
A collector desiring at least one copy of each play will need to acquire both the Modern Library College Edition (T91) and the 1980s "Plain Brown Paper Wrapper" three volume set (ISBNs 60805-4, 60806-2, 60807-0). These four books, which contain a total of 12 plays not available in any other edition, are in formats not commonly sought out by ML collectors and contain every O'Neill play published by the ML.
The O'Neill plays in the Modern Library are shown below, along with the ML identifiers for the titles containing the play.
| Play | ML Title Published In | ||
| Ah, Wilderness! | 342.1, G21.2, T91, ISBN60806-2 | ||
| All God’s Chillun Got Wings | 342.1, G55.2, ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Anna Christie | 146.2, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Before Breakfast | ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Beyond the Horizon | 342.1, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Bound East for Cardiff | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Days Without End | ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Desire Under the Elms | G55.2, P56, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Diff'rent | ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Dreamy Kid | ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Dynamo | ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Emperor Jones | 146.1, 146.2, G55.2, 337.1, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| First Man | ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Fountain | ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Gold | ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Great God Brown | G55.2, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Hairy Ape | 146.2, G55.2, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Hughie | T91 | ||
| Iceman Cometh | P28, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Ile | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| In the Zone | 111.1, 111.2, G22.3, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Lazarus Laughed | G55.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Long Journey Home | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Marco Millions | G55.2, ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Moon of the Caribbees | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Moon For the Misbegotten | T91 | ||
| Mourning Becomes Electra | G55.2, P56, ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Rope | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Strange Interlude | G55.2, P56, ISBN60807-0 | ||
| Straw | 146.1, ISBN60805-4 | ||
| Touch of the Poet | T91 | ||
| Welded | ISBN60806-2 | ||
| Where the Cross is Made | 111.1, 111.2, ISBN60807-0 | ||
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