Marco Millions

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Author: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) Year: 1927 Publisher: Boni Liveright Place: New York Description: xii-180+[epilogue]. Octavo (8 14" x 5 12") bound in original green boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt facsimile signature to front cover and light green ruled edge. First edition. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an Irish American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known ( Ah, Wilderness! ). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism. Marco Millions is a tremendous satirical dramatization of the life and journeys of Marco Polo, the Venetian, written in O'Neil's poetical manner. Against a myriad of colorful, beautiful scenes laid in the great countries of the exotic East, Marco Polo travels toward romance that never touches him - for O'Neil sees him as a merchant, a Babbitt of his time, one who lets beauty and love slip through his fingers as so much discarded m

• Binding: Hardcover

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