King W. Davies - Long days journey into night

Long Days Journey Into Night

Foreword copyright 2014 by Jessica Lange.

Multimedia edition, including notes, chronology, essays, and bibliography, copyright 2016 by William Davies King.

Long Days Journey Into Night copyright as an unpublished work 1955 by Carlotta Monterey ONeill.

Copyright 1955 by Carlotta Monterey ONeill. First published February 1956. Copyright renewed 1984 by Yale University. Corrected edition copyright 1989 by Yale University.

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Frontispiece: Eugene ONeill in 1939, at the time of writing Long Days Journey Into Night (Photo Horace Bristol/Corbis. Louis SheafferEugene ONeill Collection, Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives, Connecticut College)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013956573
ISBN: 978-0-300-18641-3 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-0-300-21432-1 (multimedia edition)

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THE EUGENE ONEILL COLLECTION was founded at the Yale University Library in 1931 by Carlotta Monterey ONeill. It includes notes, photographs, and the manuscripts of plays, among them LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. All royalties from the sale of the Yale editions of this book go to Yale University for the benefit of the Eugene ONeill Collection, for the purchase of books in the field of drama, and for the establishment of Eugene ONeill Scholarships in the Yale School of Drama.

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