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Long Day's Journey Into Night

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Description for Long Day's Journey Into Night Paperback. Written around 1940, but not staged until 1956, this autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright recreates his own family experience, in an attempt to understand himself and those to whom he was tied by fate and love. This is the complete text, with a critical introduction. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, Long Day's Journey into Night is an intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of the author's own family - a play so acutely personal that he insisted it was not published until after his death.

One single day in the Tyrones' Connecticut home. James Tyrone Snr is a miser, a talented actor who even squanders his talent in an undemanding role; eldest son Jamie is an affable, whoremongering alcoholic and confirmed ne'er-do well; youngest son Edmund is poetic, sensitive, suffering from a respiratory condition and deep-seated disillusionment; ... Read more

Existing together under this roof, and the profound weight of the past, they subtly tear one another apart, shred by shred.

'Set in 1912, the year of O'Neill's own attempted suicide, it is an attempt to understand himself and those to whom he was irrevocably tied by fate and by love. It is the finest and most powerful play to have come out of America' Christopher Bigsby

Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1939-41, and first published in 1956 (after O'Neill's death in 1953). It was first performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, in February 1956, and had its first American production at Helen Hayes Theater, New York, in November that year. It won the Tony Award for Best Play, and O'Neill was posthumously awarded the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

This edition includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854591029
SKU
9781854591029
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Eugene O´neill
Eugene O'Neill was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and at the time of his death in 1953 had written over twenty plays.

Reviews for Long Day's Journey Into Night
'A piercingly autobiographical vision of a family bent on self-destruction'
Evening Standard
'Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece'
The Times
'What never ceases to astonish is the dizzying emotional contradiction of O'Neill's characters. Within a tight classical structure, they bounce around like pinballs between reality and illusion... leaves you emotionally pulverised'
Guardian
'A semi-autobiographical masterpiece... [has] an emotional ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Long Day's Journey Into Night


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