Long Day’s Journey Into Night

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Frontispiece: Eugene O’Neill in 1939, at the time of writing Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Photo © Horace Bristol/Corbis. Louis Sheaffer–Eugene O’Neill Collection, Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives, Connecticut College)

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