Harold Bloom - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
Produced after the death of Eugene O'Neill, "Long Day's Journey into Night" is generally considered the author's masterpiece and a seminal drama of the 20th century. The play explores the often-painful ways in which family members love and recognize one another. This new edition in the "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations" series offers a selection of full-length critical essays that explore the restrictive, but essential, familial bonds that mark and define the characters' lives. Complete with an introductory essay by literary scholar Harold Bloom, this study guide also features a chronology, a bibliography, an index, and notes about the contributors.
No one understands the complexities of modern life better than Eugene Mirman--claims Eugene Mirman—and anyone seeking guidance from a man who has lived through everything (except the Great Depression, the Spanish-American War, and Jerry Lee Lewis's sex scandal) won't resist this charmingly hysterical guidebook. * Become ultra-popular in high school (without "putting out" -- whatever that is) * Discover somewhere between four and two thousand ways to overcome social anxiety (closer to four) * Start a band, become an artist, or disappoint your parents by getting on a reality television show!
To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by religious zealotry and political chaos. Years of tone-deaf US policies have left the region powerless to control its own destiny, playing into a longstanding sense of shame and impotence for a once-mighty people. In this definitive account, preeminent historian Eugene Rogan traces five centuries of Arab history, from the Ottoman conquests through the British and French colonial periods and up to the present age of unipolar American hegemony.
Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn online and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he wonders if his novel is real as well. Eugene Myers may just be the one to stop the apocalypse
Eugene O'Neill, one of America's first and leading tragic dramatists, is best known for his plays "The Iceman Cometh", "Desire Under the Elms", and "Long Day's Journey into Night". O'Neill's art for anguish won him four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a place as one of the most important writers in American history
