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Studs Lonigan is a novel trilogy by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the Studs Lonigan trilogy 29th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Studs Lonigan: With Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Brad Dourif, Charles Durning. Story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930. The story centers on young Studs who is growing into adulthood in a city full of temptations.
Studs Lonigan, trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell about life among lower-middle-class Irish Roman Catholics in Chicago during the first third of the 20th century. The trilogy consists of Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in Chicago Streets (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment.
The first (Young Lonigan) neatly introduces and establishes the parameters of Studs Lonigan's life: the South Side Chicago neighborhood, the Lonigan family, the ever-present Catholic Church, within and against which the teenaged Studs struggles to find out who he is and who he'll become.
Complete summary of James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Studs Lonigan.
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Nov 1, 2001 · Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Paperback – November 1, 2001. by James T. Farrell (Author), Anne Douglas (Introduction) 4.3 144 ratings. See all formats and editions. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The ...
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The three novels—Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935)—are unparalleled in their sense of the textures of real life: of the institutions of Catholicism, the poolroom and the dance marathon, romance and marriage, gangsterism and ethnic rivalry.
Studs produces a terrifying picture. The some images, dramatic actions, and char- acters to carry out this theme. Chairman of the English Department at Miami University (Ohio), Mr. Branch is the Images in the trilogy drawn from city author of The Literary Apprenticeship of and nature are solid, integral parts of.
