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Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded 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 includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom.
The action covers a fateful, heart-rending day from around 8:30 am to midnight, in Augus...more
Published February 8th 2002 by Yale University Press
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Mar 08, 2017Hailey (Hailey in Bookland) rated it it was ok
Oct 22, 2008Kenny rated it it was amazing
Shelves: scripts, author-author, favorites, classics, pulitzer-prize, theatre, top-11, oneill
“How could you believe me—when I can’t believe myself ? I’ve become such a liar.”
Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (IIii) I believe Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT to be the greatest American play ever written, as well as the greatest play of the 20th century. It fascinates me that as most playwright's talents wane as they age, O'Neill's grew stronger with each passing year. To have written LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE ICEMAN COMETH, A MOON FOR THE...more
“None of us can help the things life has done to us.”
“Long Day’s Journey into Night” is considered a classic of American drama, and it deserves that distinction. This text is a searing look into the intricacies of family, addiction, jealously, work, health, poverty, wealth and love. It has something to say about all of those topics and doing all that successfully is a monumental task in and of itself. To do all of that well is astounding. The play follows a day in the life of the Tyrone family. H...more
Nov 19, 2013Carol Storm rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
It's really sad to think that kids in high school are forced to read junk like DEATH OF A SALESMAN and THE CRUCIBLE when a great play like this one is almost forgotten.
The thing I love the most about this play is that it really feels like the story of a family where there is no hope. I know just what it's like when one parent is permanently checked out on drugs, or alcohol, and the other parent is trying to keep up a false front, and the kids are always either acting out or just pretending noth...more
Oct 24, 2009Jason rated it really liked it · review of another edition
From Act 1 Eugene O'Neill jerks away the patchwork veil from the face of a family to reveal the anatomy of the skin, every pustule, all the carbuncles, discoloration and scars, the embarrassing halitosis, wax and hairs—the attributes that, up close, make us ugly human beings. Long Day's Journey Into Night is a naked insight to the brutal, unyielding properties that trap families into dysfunctional, vengeful, malignant relations.
Guilt, criticism, paranoia, competition, blame, hate, distrust, add...more
You know when you're reading something and think, 'Damn, this is good,' and then you look up the playwright and realize he won 4 Pulitzers and the Nobel Prize? Yeah. O'Neill sort of knows what he's doing. This play is the emotional equivalent of picking a scab. All four characters are seared on my brain, and the detailed, beautiful stage directions make this an especially good reading experience. Recommended if you like family dramas steeped in hopelessness.
Oct 23, 2017Jasmine rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics, light-read, just-fine, movie-based, realism, skimming-through, thought-provoking
”The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings.” Long Day’s Journey into Night was a story about a family, James Tyrone (father), Mary (mother), Jamie (elder son), Edmund (younger son) and Cathlyn (second daughter), and their typical day. I’ve always thought it’d be hard to read a play but it turned out just the opposite! Well, at least for this one, Long Day’s Journey into Night is surprisingly easy to read and grasp its meaning. As short as the story i...more
Jun 21, 2015Danae rated it it was amazing
Long Day's Journey into Depression.
Sep 19, 2018Mark André rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Interesting read. My first O'Neill. An unhappy family re-lives in intoxicated conversations the highs, the lows, the lies, and the fantasies that they all seem to believe have led them to their present morbid state. Blame the mother. Blame the father. Blame the sons. Blame society. Blame the drugs. Blame death, loneliness, and want. Very hard to realize, emotionally charged and psychologically complex, directions to the actors. Realistic dialogue. And very long. 3.5-stars rounded up to 4.
Feb 15, 2014Laura Leaney rated it really liked it
The first time I ever saw Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf I could not quite believe that people could drink that much and live. And I thought this despite the fact that I come from a drinking family. The alcohol in Albee’s play operates not so much as a numbing agent, but as an alchemic incendiary to the verbal abuse that transforms four intelligent people into harpies of the worst kind.
In O’Neill’s play, the focus is also on four people, members of an Irish-American family – a father, m...more
Dec 31, 2014Connie G rated it really liked it
The epigraph of Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical play says it was a 12th anniversary gift to his wife: 'I mean it as a tribute to your love and tenderness which gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play--write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.' The play was published in 1956, three years after O'Neill's death.
As the day turns into night, the four characters in the Tyrone family reveal more and m...more
Dec 17, 2017Sabrien Abdelrahman rated it liked it
Why did this feel like rereading The Glass Menagerie?
Feb 23, 2016Suvi rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 1940-1969, _north-america, theatre, _favorites
This has been in my reading list for ages, and now that I finally managed to grab the thing for a reading challenge, it couldn't fly any faster to my list of absolute must-sees. With the likes of Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, and Hadley Fraser starring, the adaptation at the Bristol Old Vic would be a dream, but the circumstances are what they are, so this will just have to wait. Jul 06, 2015Emily M rated it it was amazing
Reading a play instead of seeing it performed can be complicated and underwhelming. No such problem here. Long Day's...more
Shelves: classics, 2015, favorites, drama, rereads
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a sea gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!
^ These words are spoken by Edmund (O'Neill's autobiographical stand-in) in the late pages of the play. And I think they very much capture the mood and tension that so densely fog the lives of the Tyrones --...more
Dec 18, 2007Weinz rated it really liked it
Completely depressing and beautiful. After reading this play it is clear why O'Neill chose to have it published posthumously because of its autobiographical nature. O'Neill used his own name for the baby that died young and ended up being the trigger for so much of the family’s dysfunction. The rich dialogue and intense relationships bring your emotions right into the Tyrone family and their turmoil. There was substance abuse in every member of the family. It was interesting the different levels...more
Years ago i had a professor who used to tell me that you can't say you read plays if you havent read Eugene O'Neil's ones yet !He was right .what genuis can write such beautiful piece of art??What shattred dramatist can use the sorrow ,'the tears ,and the blood 'to write this wonderful play full of pitiless honestY ? another great work that talks about the importance of the past ,past memories ,past dreams ,and past as it is . Yes in the play,The unbearable past haunts everything , even a past t...more
Apr 16, 2014Momina Masood rated it it was amazing
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Mar 20, 2015Beatrix rated it it was amazing
What an utterly beautiful play! This is my second of O'Neill and I am completely won over. Where naturalist and realist fiction takes on life with the sharp gaze of the one who doesn't cringe, symbolist literature says: Don't look at me as if I'd gone nutty. I'm talking sense. Who wants to see life a...more
Shelves: favorites, 2015-favorites, my-emotions, read-in-2015, inspiring, classics, lit-classes, anglistika
Loved this so much. Need to see this play performed.
And several other times in my life, when I was swimming far out, or lying alone on a beach, I have had the same experience. Became the sun, the hot sand, green seaweed anchored to a rock, swaying in the tide. Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like a veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see -- and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you ar...more
You wont like this book unless you have some stodgy English professor explain all the allegorical motifs that come at certain times. However, I found this to be a masterpiece. Not to be a spoiler, but the wife is addicted to Morphine and her sons are alcoholics. Uplifting story it isn’t, but the way it is crafted and acted out was way ahead of it’s time. This might be the one time you can watch the video and then read it. Either way, this was one Eugene’s best including the Ice Man Cometh.
May 21, 2009AB rated it really liked it
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Jul 07, 2018John Pistelli rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Long Day's Journey into Night, often considered one of the finest American dramas and as its author's masterpiece, was first published posthumously in 1955. The sources of its plot and characters in the Nobel-winning author's autobiography, his tortured family life marked by regret and addiction, seemed to demand its withholding until O'Neill's death in 1953.
The play's title is apt as it obeys the Aristotelian unities of time and place: it is set from morning to night on one summer day in one ro...more
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill Jul 08, 2015Anne rated it really liked it
This is an outstanding play. And that should have been the end of the “review”. What more can you add, and why waste someone’s time with some words which cannot possibly contribute to an already established, acclaimed work. I am not sure who, if anybody reads past the first two sentences, but my original plan had my family in mind: daughter- not wife- she never listens to me when I talk, why would she go to the trouble of accessing goodreads or my bl...more
Shelves: literary, anthologies, read-in-2015, american-lit, classics, play
Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Okay, that was so good. But really depressing. It's a little difficult to read sometimes, because it's so realistic and, of course, tends to be painful. This is a story of a family who slowly descends to ruin; a domestic tragedy that will truly reverberate in the hearts of the readers. Enter Mary, the mother of two sons, a...more
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 disease on top of the other problems.
That said...this is a fascinating play with a explosive end. The first three acts are so quiet in comparison, in their depiction of the Tyrone family's individual...more
*4.75
5 stars...that's kind of rare. And decently unexpected. I didn't know what I was getting into[though Blatz had called him America's greatest playwright]. On a side note, for class, I plan to reenact the final scene, starting from Mary's entrance - it should be interesting. When I think about it, I'm not altogether sure why I chose to give this five stars. A good many times, I tend to say it'd be better onstage, and leave it at that. But while this would be, indeed, amazing onstage, it was a...more
Jul 11, 2010Frankie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I had the opportunity to read this in World Drama class years ago, but I admit shamefully that I skimmed it. Now, knowing the autobiographical context and the actual accuracy of O'Neill's family history portrayed here, I couldn't help but feel emotionally invested. In the dedication to his wife at the beginning, O'Neill describes it as 'this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood.' Sounds melodramatic, and the first half may indeed seem so. But for me this play carries a sucker punch. Th...more
It's hard to really 'like' this play, considering it's so painful, especially knowing what happens and reading it again and seeing how genuinely happy things are (or at least seem to be) on the first page. Literature isn't often as 'courageous' as people say it is, but O'Neill's play is a remarkably courageous act - I doubt I'd be willing to memorialize my worst memories and experiences for all time for all to see. Not that my experiences were anywhere near as tragic as his ... which makes his w...more
This book is one of those profound masterpieces that have the uncanny ability to induce the most despairing sadness, a play that is unparalleled in its depiction of the low-life, middle-aged, addiction-riddled family, each with their own forever-haunting demons. Eugene O'Neill was a true master of his craft. <3
Feb 14, 2016Dylan rated it really liked it
This is kind of brilliant. The buried resentments of the family are so tangible and the family dysfunction so palpable the play was as gripping as it was distressing. As the appearance of civility unravels just reading this feels like the long journey itself.
Jul 26, 2011Moira Russell added it · review of another edition
Shelves: on-the-kindle, 2011-50-new-books-challenge, favourites, ebook
Shattering as ever. Just like rereading Oedipus Rex for the nth time. I always think, 'This time I'll be objective, I'll be able to analyze it just as a work of art,' and no, I'm purged and limp by the ending as always.
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature '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 American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwr...more
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