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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.
A drama based on James T. Farrell's novel about the Irish-American Lonigan family in Chicago from 1918 to 1930. The series stars Harry Hamlin, Colleen Dewhurst, Brad Dourif and others, and won a Primetime Emmy.
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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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Studs Lonigan: Directed by Irving Lerner. With Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Carolyn Craig. A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
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Nov 1, 2001 · 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.
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Mar 7, 2004 · Studs, especially the teenage Studs of Young Lonigan, was someone with whom a boy of the '50s could identify, as he struggled to break free of his loving but stifling family, as he fell into...
