The Hairy Ape

A stoker who ruled the ship's belly is called a beast by a rich girl, and goes looking for where he belongs.

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The Hairy Ape · Eugene O'Neill

Welcome to your city, huh? Hail, hail, de gang's all here! Say, yuh're some hard-lookin' guy, ain't yuh? I seen lots of tough nuts dat de gang called gorillas, but yuh're de foist real one I ever seen. Some chest yuh got, and shoulders, and dem arms and mits! I bet yuh got a punch in eider fist dat'd knock 'em all silly! Sure, I get yuh.

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Writer	Eugene O'Neill
Written	1922
Pages	75
Reading time	~1.5 hrs
Monologues	1 indexed
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