Long Day's Journey Into Night
by Eugene O'neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night Book Cover
Long Day's Journey Into Night Cover

Highlights

British

Synopsis

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; and their mother Mary, living in a haze of self-delusion and morphine addiction.

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.

Publication

Year Published
1991
ISBN 10
1854591029
ISBN 13
9781854591029
Binding
Paperback
Edition
New edition
Print Length
110 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
DCC
812.52
Print
Long Day's Journey Into Night is a British play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in London, 1991. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781854591029 and an ISBN-10 of 1854591029.
Digital
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