Long Day's Journey Into Night

In this play, written in 1940 and released in 1956 after his death, Eugene O'Neill turns to the loneliest and most entangled of subjects: an unflinching portrayal, in a time of acute psychological stress, of himself and of those closest to him. He had long been haunted, as he says in his dedication, by this "play of old sorrow," and he could bring himself to deal with it only in the medium to which he had devoted his full creative powers. It is a somber and moving drama and its writing was an act of magnificent courage. After performance in Sweden and on Broadway it has been seen all over the world and has now been made into a film.