Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play in four acts 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. Taking place on a single day in August 1912 at the seaside cottage of the Tyrone family in Connecticut, the play portrays a family struggling to grapple with the realities and consequences of each member's failings.
"By common consent, Long Day's Journey into Night is Eugene O'Neill's 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