Monte Cristo Cottage

Connecticut · USA · House

He put this house on the stage. His mother would go into the small room next to his and he would hear her crying, and then laughing to herself.

Eugene O'Neill spent his childhood summers in this house at New London, Connecticut, and he wrote it directly into Long Day's Journey Into Night, which is generally held to be the greatest play written by an American.

His mother suffered badly. She would go into the small room next to his, and he would hear her crying through the wall, and then giggling to herself.

That is not folklore. It is in the play, and O'Neill wrote the play about his own family with the instruction that it not be performed until long after his death. His mother was addicted to morphine, prescribed after his birth, and the play is largely about what that did to four people in this house.

What is reported in the cottage now belongs to them.

He won the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzers and could not bring himself to publish this one while he lived.

The house is a museum and is open seasonally.

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Hvor ligger Monte Cristo Cottage?

Monte Cristo Cottage ligger i Connecticut, USA.