O'Neill: Life with Monte Cristo

by Barbara Gelb, Arthur Gelb, Arthur

Book Overview

"Brilliantly researched and written...The story is as powerful as any O'Neill play...." -- Los Angeles Times Never before in the annals of American letters have biographers returned to their subject... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399146091
• ISBN13: 9780399146091
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
• Length: 722 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Incredible biography

This revised version of the Gelb's famous biography from the sixties is an incredible read. It traces the life of O'Neill from his early beginnings to his first Broadway play, Beyond the Horizon. One gets an in-depth view of his life with his parents and brother. Monte Cristo provides the modern reader with an enriched biographical background that really elucidates aspects of O'Neill's masterwork, Long Day's Journey Into Night. This biography is clearly written, thoughtful, provocative, and interesting. It's definitely one of the great literary biographies of an American writer.