Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene…

Long Day's Journey into Night (original 1956; edition 1962)

by Eugene O'Neill

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Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor, and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.… (more)

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Title:	Long Day's Journey into Night
Authors:	Eugene O'Neill
Info:	Yale University Press (1962), Paperback, 175 pages
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Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1956)

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#555 in our old book database. Not rated.

villemezbrown | Apr 16, 2024 |

It's good at first, but by Act 3 all the themes have been developed and the rest of the play is simply digging in further to the already-established ruts.

This might be a play that really suffers in the reading as opposed to the performance. (

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blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |

$15. Softcover Later Printing Drama; In this play, written in 1940 and released in 1956 after his death, Eugene O'Neil turns to the loneliest and most entangled of subjects. (176 Pgs.) Covers and book very good.

susangeib | Oct 29, 2022 |

4/20/22

laplantelibrary | Apr 20, 2022 |

Ahhh. Quite the excellent read. I love the way O'Neal develops this--how we slowly but surely grow accustomed to the alcoholism, the morphine addiction, the yelling and the crying and the arguing, as if we ourselves are slowly trying to tolerate this family's horribly tragic flaws. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Eugene O'Neill	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Bloom, Harold	Foreword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Siltanen, Juha	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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LR, 1972

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Complete Plays 1932-1943 by Eugene O'Neill

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Version, Sixth Edition by Nina Baym

Three American Plays by Tennessee Williams

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Long Day's Journey Into Night [1962 film] by Sidney Lumet

Long Day's Journey Into Night [director unknown] by DVD

Long Day's Journey Into Night [1973 TV movie] by Peter Wood

Long Day's Journey Into Night [1987 film] by Jonathan Miller

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Eugene O'Neill: Three Plays (Casebook) by Normand Berlin

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Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom

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Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (Monarch Notes) by Paul W Gannon

Long Day's Journey into Night: Native Eloquence by Michael Hinden

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Long Day's Journey Into Night - Teacher Guide by Novel Units, Inc. by Novel Units

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Long day’s journey into night

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1956

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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973 | IMDb)

Viaje por una larga noche (1977 | IMDb)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1982 | IMDb)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987 | IMDb)

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Living room of James Tyrone's summer home on a morning in August, 1912.

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This entry is for the script of the play; please do not enter any of the filmed or televised versions of the play here.

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Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor, and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

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