Long Day's Journey Into Night
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300008074 (0300008074)
Publish date: January 28th 1956
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
High School
*yawn*
Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912...
Don't read this play if you or your family have a history of drug addiction and/or alcoholism and you don't want to be reminded of it. This play is about the disintegration of a family whose members are, variously, addicted to drugs or alcohol; tormented by the failure of their dreams; or dying from...
Long Day’s Journey into Night is a true embodiment of that saying “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Witnessing a day in the life of the Tyrone family is like watching an all day fencing match, every member of the family constantly challenging each other to verbal duels. Some of their cutting rem...
Great book. I love the interplay between the family members. Loved the movie with Katherine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier.
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