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Summary. Although most often published and read as a single novel, Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy comprises Young Lonigan: A Boyhood in the Chicago Streets (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan ...
naturalism. James T. Farrell (born February 27, 1904, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 22, 1979, New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer known for his realistic portraits of the lower-middle-class Irish in Chicago, drawn from his own experiences. Farrell belonged to a working-class Irish American family.
Studs Lonigan. by James T. Farrell. 3.82 · 2,313 Ratings · 132 Reviews · published 1935 · 16 editions. An unparalleled example of American naturalism, th…. Want to Read. Rate it: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day, and Studs Lonigan.
Nov 1, 2001 · Studs Lonigan. James T. Farrell. Penguin, Nov 1, 2001 - Fiction - 896 pages. 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 Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In this relentlessly naturalistic portrait, Studs starts out his life full ...
Nov 1, 2001 · Alongside his masterpiece Studs Lonigan, Farrell’s best-known works include the Danny O’Neill novels, A World I Never Made, No Star is Lost, Father and Son, and My Days of Anger. James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy is also available in Penguin Classics. Ann Douglas teaches English at Columbia University.
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In William "Studs" Lonigan--a would-be tough guy and archetypal adolescent born to Irish-American parents on Chicago's South Side--Farrell creates an anti-heroic Everyman helplessly stifled by the conditions under which he grows up. The three novels--Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935)--are ...
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a 1934 novel by James T. Farrell, and the second part of Farrell's trilogy featuring the character William "Studs" Lonigan. [1] [2] This novel covers about 12 years in Studs Lonigan's life, from 1917 through 1928.
