[Studs Lonigan 01] • Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

[Studs Lonigan 01] • Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Authors
Farrell, James T.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Tags
classics , war
ISBN
9781101503164
Date
1935-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.96 MB
Lang
en
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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 of vigor and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment. Studs's swaggering and vicious comrades, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background lead him to a life of futile dissipation.

Ann Douglas provides an illuminating introductory essay to Farrell's masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of American literature.