The nine full-length plays chosen by the dramatist for this volume best represent the body of work by which Eugene O’Neill has become internationally famous.   On the stage they have been accorded the enthusiastic applause of playgoers the world over.  They have brought to the author three Pulitzer Prizes, an honorary university degree and the Nobel Prize for Literature.  In the theatre of the readers’ imagination they have rendered a service that is quite incalculable, for his plays are read and treasured by an ever-growing public in every civilized language; they belong to world literature.

The publication of the 868-page volume, Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill, the fifty-fifth title in the Modern Library Giant series, again confirms the statement made by the New York Times that this series is “the greatest book bargain in all the world today.”