1939年夏天，大战阴影笼罩的旧金山，在一座俯视着湾区、名为“道庵”的房子里，已经获得诺贝尔文学奖的奥尼尔，开始撰写在内心深藏多年的自传戏《长夜漫漫路迢迢》。他决心将自己家中不可告人之事毫无保留地诉诸笔墨。往事如幽灵般纠缠不休，逼他非写不可，否则永远不得安宁。这部自传性剧作成为奥尼尔代表作。按作者本人的要求，这部作品在他去世后，直到1956年才首次上演。

The playwright’s first full-length drama and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1920) concerns two brothers in love with the same woman. Robert Mayo, who had dreamed of adventure "beyond the horizon," remains behind and weds the lady in question, while his brother, Andrew, goes to sea. In the end, embittered and dying, Robert dreams of the escape that lies "beyond the horizon."

收录尤金·奥尼尔晚期的5部剧作 送冰的人来了 进入黑夜的漫长旅程 休伊 诗人的气质 月照不幸人

尤金·奥尼尔(ELtgene O’Neill，1888—1953)是美国著名悲剧作家，是现代美国戏剧的奠基人和缔造者。他四次获得普利策戏剧奖，并于一九三六年荣膺诺贝尔文学奖，这使之跻身世界剧坛，并标志着美国戏剧的成熟。奥尼尔之所以受到世界剧坛的青睐，主要是由于他在悲剧创作方面取得的卓尔不群的成就。他是一位多产作家，孜孜不倦地笔耕，一共写了五十余部剧作，几乎全是悲剧，其写作题材之新颖、涉及的领域之广阔、揭示的哲理寓意之深邃，以及艺术风格之璀璨多彩，在美国戏剧史上是绝无仅有的。奥尼尔敢于独辟蹊径，善于博采众长，对戏剧艺术进行了大胆的实验和创新，从多种视角展示了他对人生真谛的探索和对戏剧艺术的执着追求，颇有超前意识。他的创作历程和成就为后人留下了宝贵的财富，为美国戏剧的发展做出了杰出的贡献，被评论家称为“美国的莎士比亚”是当之无愧的。

Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the first American dramatist to receive a Nobel Prize, Eugene O'Neill filled his plays with rich characterization and innovative language, taking the outcasts and renegades of society and depicting their Olympian struggles with themselves-and with destiny.

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, coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, which opens in Chicago in January 2002 and in New York in April.

1988 Library of America hardcover, Eugene O'Neill ( Long Day's Journey Into Night) . All 50 of the author's plays including the cast in one volume

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