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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, 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.
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James T. Farrell's "Studs Lonigan" (1935) is a trilogy which tells the story of the short, unhappy, and brutal life of its title character on the streets of Chicago from 1914 to Lonigan's death at the age of 30 in 1930.
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No anonymity here. Farrell’s characters are very much fixed by history, ethnicity, and bounded by place: the institution of the Neighborhood, “a personal past” written in stone. There was a real Studs. According to his death certificate, William “Studs” Cunningham was born on September 12, 1903.
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In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs starts out his life full of ability and ambition, qualities that are crushed by the Chicago youth's limited social and economic environment.
