Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Published: 1 October 1989
  • ISBN: 9780224610735
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $29.99
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Long Day's Journey Into Night

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This powerful play is a dramatized autobiography of the great American playwright, Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.
  • Published: 1 October 1989
  • ISBN: 9780224610735
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neil was born in New York in 1888 and died in Boston in 1953. One of America's greatest playwrights, he was three times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.

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Praise for Long Day's Journey Into Night

Why do we continue to find Eugene O'Neill's family drama so moving? Partly because the play draws so closely on the author's own experience... [but] what also grips us is the tension between O'Neill's tight classical structure and the surging contradictions of family life

Guardian

Harrowing... the dramatic impact is shattering... The passage in which he describes his dirt-poor childhood is overpoweringly moving

Daily Telegraph

O'Neill keeps control with dry humour. This is an acute study of the behavioural ruts as well as the mercurial complexity of family relationships

Independent

Epic... a tale of monstrously corrupted intimacy

Herald
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