20th CenturyImaginative Literature

O'Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra

Aeschylus' Oresteia retold in New England after the Civil War, a family undone by its past.

✎ Being written
Volume
60 of the 1990 set
Author
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)
Work
Mourning Becomes Electra 1931

Ideas: Tragedy and suffering Family and home Fate and free will

No public-domain English translation. Find it at a library: Open Library or WorldCat.

A note for parents: A tragedy of murder within a family; for adult readers.

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