O'Neill, Eugene — Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy

Near Fine with no dust jacket Horace Liveright 1st Edition. Fifth Printing Stated first edition, fifth printing. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, light green decoration with the author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, top edge black, illustrated endpapers, black and green title page. NB: "Mourning Becomes Electra" is a towering 1931 trilogy of plays by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American dramatist Eugene O'Neill. Set in a New England seaport town immediately following the American Civil War, the masterpiece is a modernized, psychologically driven reimagining of Aeschylus's Ancient Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia. Across 13 acts, O'Neill replaces the Greek concept of divine fate with the deterministic forces of modern Freudian and Jungian psychology, exposing a dark inheritance of guilt, hidden desires, and multi-generational vengeance within the wealthy, puritanical Mannon family.. The paper (only) of both hinges are separated but the hinges are strong, spine sunned, otherwise the volume is fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 256 pages NY