Long Day's Journey into Night - Softcover

Eugene O'Neill

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9780300093056: Long Day's Journey into Night

Synopsis

Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
 
“The definitive edition.”—Boston Globe
 
Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a Foreword by Harold Bloom, in which he writes: “By common consent, Long Day’s Journey into Night is Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.”

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About the Author

Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), the father of American theater, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. Harold Bloom (1930–2019), a renowned literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, was the author of many books, including The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages, The Anxiety of Influence, and How to Read and Why.

From the Back Cover

"By common consent, Long Day's Journey into Night is Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us."—Harold Bloom, from the foreword "Only an artist of O'Neill's extraordinary skill and perception can draw the curtain on the secrets of his own family to make you peer into your own. Long Day's Journey into Night is the most remarkable achievement of one of the world's greatest dramatists."—Jose Quintero "The play is an invaluable key to its author's creative evolution. It serves as the Rosetta Stone of O'Neill's life and art."—Barbara Gelb "The definitive edition of a 'play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood,' as O'Neill described it in dedicating it to his wife, Carlotta."—Boston Globe

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9780300094107: Long Day s Journey into Night: Second Edition

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ISBN 10:  0300094108 ISBN 13:  9780300094107
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002
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