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LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Eugene O´neill
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Description for LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224610735
SKU
9780224610735
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99-1
About Eugene O´neill
Eugene O'Neill 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.
Reviews 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 ... Read more
Guardian
Harrowing... the dramatic impact is shattering... The passage in which he describes his ... Read more