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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, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom,... read more
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- James Tyrone: Husband of Mary Tyrone, father of both James Tyrone, Jr and Edmund Tyrone.
- Mary Cavan Tyrone: Wife of James Tyrone.
- James Tyrone, Jr: Son of James Tyrone and Mary Tyrone.
- Edmund Tyrone: Younger son of James and Mary Tyrone.
- Cathleen: Second girl.
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That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
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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!
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won’t let us.
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But I suppose life has made him like that, and he can’t help it. None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.
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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 are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!
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It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.
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The dead part of me hopes you won’t get well. Maybe he’s even glad the game has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn’t want to be the only corpse around the house!
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He can’t help being what the past has made him. Any more than your father can. Or you. Or I.
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That’s what makes it so hard—for all of us. We can’t forget.
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Suddenly and startlingly one sees in her face the girl she had once been, not a ghost of the dead, but still a living part of her.
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First Sentence edit
SCENE Living room of James Tyrone's summer home on a morning in August, 1912.
Table of Contents edit
Scenes
ACT 1
Living room of the Tyrones' summer home 8:30 A.M. of a day in August, 1912
ACT 2
The same, around 12:45
ACT 3
The same, about a half hour later
ACT 4
The same, around 6:30 that evening
ACT 5
The same, around midnight
Authors & Contributors edit
- Eugene O'Neill (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: England
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: 0224610732
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: England
Publication Date: 1956
ISBN: 0224610732
Page Count: 160
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1957: Drama)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 812.52
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