Long Day}}}s Journey into Night: Second Edition [Paperback]

Eugene ONeills autobiographical playLong Days Journey into Nightisregarded 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, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York in April.

By common consent,Long Days Journey into NightisEugene ONeills 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 ONeills extraordinary skill and perception can draw the curtain on the secrets of his own family to make you peer into your own.Long Days Journey into Nightis the most remarkable achievement of one of the worlds greatest dramatists.Jose Quintero

The play is an invaluable key to its authors creative evolution. It serves as the Rosetta Stone of ONeills life and art.Barbara Gelb

The definitive edition of a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood, as ONeill described it in dedicating it to his wife, Carlotta.Boston Globe

"Drawing upon recent textual scholarship, the sixty-first printing of the Yale edition incorporates missing lines of dialogue accidental“Ë