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 Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish 1906
Joyce Carol Oates
The last days of Emily Dickinson and Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain are imagined in these two one-act plays. Softcover, 100 pp. $12.99.
 Triptych
Edna O'Brien
Three women -- a mistress, a wife, and a daughter -- expose their passions for
the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and
entrap. F-3. Softcover, 42 pp. $9.99.
 Triptych and Iphigenia: Two Plays
Edna O'Brien
Collected here are two of O'Brien's most captivating dramatic works. Triptych (F-3)
concerns three women -- a mistress, a wife, and a daughter -- who expose their
passions for the same man and confront the ways that love can simultaneously
liberate and entrap. In Iphigenia (M-5, F-4), O'Brien offers
us an important reminder of the perils of war. Softcover, 110 pp. $17.95.
 Jailbait
Deidre O'Connor
Through the course of one dizzying night at a club, Jailbait follows the parallel stories of two fifteen-year-old girls, desperate to grow up, and two thirty-something men who are looking to be twenty-one again. 2m, 2f. Softcover, 55 pp. $11.99.
 Marilyn/God
Rosary Hartel O'Neil
Exploring the complex, multiple levels that made up cult goddess Marilyn Monroe -- namely her vulnerability, anger, and loneliness -- Marilyn/God looks at the way America's continuing obsession with fame and beauty shaped a single woman's rise to stardom. 1f. Softcover, 35 pp. $11.99.
 Collected Shorter Plays
Eugene O'Neill
All of O'Neill's themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays. They are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here gathered in a single volume are nine one-act plays that span the playwright's career--from the early sea plays to the Expressionist masterpiece The Hairy Ape to the eerie nocturnal monologue Hughie. Included in this volume also are Bound East for Cardiff, Fog, Thirst, The Long Voyage, Home, Ile, The Moon of the Caribees and In the Zone. Softcover, 306 pp. $20.95.
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Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill
This is the sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Moon picks
up eleven years after the original as Jim Tyrone grasps at his last
chance at love under the full moonlight. Josie Hogan, the play's
exuberant heroine,
tries to lift the stake of guilt and sorrow from Tyrone's heart as
she allows herself to hope again for love.
Softcover, 149 pp. $16.95.
 The
Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits
who endlessly discuss but never act on any of their dreams, and on Hickey, the
traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Softcover,
219 pp. $16.95.
 Eugene
O'Neill: Early Plays
Eugene O'Neill
Now collected for the first time in a single volume, this selection of
Eugene O'Neill's seminal early work was written between 1914 and 1921
and produced
for the stage between 1916 and 1922: seven one-act plays (The
Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In
the Zone, The
Long Voyage Home, He, Where the Cross is Made, and The Rope)
and five full-length plays (Beyond the Horizon, The
Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The
Hairy Ape). Softcover, 395 pp. $18.00.
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Touch of the Poet & More Stately Mansions
Eugene O'Neill
A Touch of the Poet (M-7, F-3) and More Stately Mansions (M-10, F-3)
-- the only 2 plays in Eugene O'Neill's never-completed 11-part series about
the psychological and economic account of American life -- are brought together
for the first time
in this paperback edition. Softcover, 568 pp. $23.95.
 4 Plays by Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Emporor Jones and The Hairy Ape are the four plays that make up this quartet of classic plays by Eugene O'Neill. They are testament to the unique and extraordinary talent of America's greatest modern dramatist. Softcover, 317 pp. $8.99.
 East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House
Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver weaves a fantastical and hilarious voyage through the dark and strange rooms of his East Village tenement building, inhabited by a dwarf cabalist, a possible Nazi, the landlord's former wet nurse and other memorable persons. Edgar leads the audience up to the final room, his own, at the top of the derelict stairs, wherein lie the secrets of his family and the unbelievable odyssey that brought him there. 1m. Softcover, 19 pp. $11.99.
 Cornelius
Mark V. Olsen
Beautiful, divorced beauty queen Cornelia Folsom is a force of nature who works her way into the heart of Governor George Wallace. Together they plan to take over the state and then the White House until an assassination attempt halts his presidential campaign. But no obstacle is too great for Cornelia to overcome, as she secretly harbours her own political ambitions amidst a hostile campaign staff, her rarely sober mother, and Southern shenanigans in this sweeping, provocative tale of sex, power, and bare-knuckled American politics. 2m, 3f. Softcover, 97 pp. $12.99.
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