Long Day's Journey into Night

Name: Long Day's Journey into Night
Author: Eugene O'Neill

by Eugene O'Neill

Autobiographical tragedy depicting family addiction and generational trauma over one night

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Eugene O'Neill

America's first great dramatist and its only playwright to win the Nobel Prize, O'Neill brought the psychological depth of Strindberg and the formal ambition of the Greeks to American theater. His autobiographical masterpiece Long Day's Journey into Night is among the greatest plays of the 20th century. He won four Pulitzer Prizes.

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