An American classic about a mother obsessed with her disabled daughter.

This new collection features three acclaimed one-act plays from Edward Albee's early years. With the initial productions of the Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, and The American Dream, Albee consolidated his reputation as a brilliant new talent of the New York Theater scene. These three plays tackle major themes such as race relations, American family life, and the essence of theater itself - each of which still continues to resonate.

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...

Records the literary development of the contemporary American dramatist in this anthology of twelve plays.