Contained within this volume are some of the best of O\'Neill\'s early one-act plays, which foreshadowed the longer Plays that have given this dramatist his most enduring fame.
In fleeing from his rebelling subjects in the West Indies, Jones is taken. "The Emperor Jones" is an expressionistic transformation of a black man named Brutus Jones.
It follows the disappointed dreams of two brothers on their family farm. "Beyond the Horizon" was the first of O\'Neill\'s three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays.
Contained within this volume are some of the best of O\'Neill\'s early one-act plays, which foreshadowed the longer Plays that have given this dramatist his most enduring fame