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The Hairy Ape

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First published: 1922
Pages: 65

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Yank is a coal stoker in the belly of a transatlantic liner, proud of his brute strength and certain that he belongs, until a wealthy young woman recoils from him and calls him a filthy beast. That single insult shatters his sense of place and sends him searching, ashore and half mad, for where he fits in a world that has no room for him. Eugene O'Neill built this 1922 play in bold expressionist strokes, staging the machinery of industry and class as a kind of cage. It is a short, ferocious work about identity, belonging, and the men modern society uses and discards. Available here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.

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Eugene O’Neill

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was an American playwright and the first from his country to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A four-time Pulitzer winner, he brought tragic depth and stark realism to the American stage in works drawn from his own troubled life.

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