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Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

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Book name: Long Day’s Journey into Night (2024)
Category: Plays
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Pages: 179 pages
ISBN13: 0300093055
ISBN: 0300093055
Language: English
Publication data: March 1, 2002, 8 a.m.
Long Day's Journey Into Night is the story of one devastating day in the Tyrone family.

The play is autobiographical, and O'Neill draws his drug-addicted mother, his close-fisted father, his drunken and degenerate elder brother, and his tormented self, with terrifying veracity.

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Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

7 books

American playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill authored Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night , produced in 1956.

He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright Anton… Read more