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Studs Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0141186739

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Chicago Stories

By: James Thomas Farrell

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Chicago Stories

By: James Thomas Farrell

Presents twenty-five short fiction stories by American author James Farrell, drawn from his first ten collection, all set in Chicago.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252019814

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The Face of Time

By: James Thomas Farrell

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The Face of Time

By: James Thomas Farrell

A sprawling tale of immigrant families' struggles with harsh urban realities

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University of Illinois Press

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0252075129

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9780252075124

Young Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

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Young Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

The first volume of James T. Farrell's remarkable Studs Lonigan trilogy An American classic in the vein of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the first book of James T. Farrell's powerful Studs Lonigan trilogy covers five months of the young hero's life in 1916, when he is sixteen years old. In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs is carried along by his swaggering and shortsighted companions, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background toward a fate that he resists yet cannot escape. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0142180076

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The Face of Time

By: James Thomas Farrell

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The Face of Time

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A sprawling tale of immigrant families' struggles with harsh urban realities

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My Days of Anger

By: James Thomas Farrell

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My Days of Anger

By: James Thomas Farrell

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

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My Days of Anger

By: James Thomas Farrell

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My Days of Anger

By: James Thomas Farrell

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

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The Irish Way

Becoming American in the Multiethnic City

By: James R. Barrett

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The Irish Way

Becoming American in the Multiethnic City

By: James R. Barrett

A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of “Americanization from the bottom up” was deeply shaped by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston’s North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans found it nearly impossible to avoid the Irish. While historians have emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast. By 1900, there were more people of Irish descent in New York City than in Dublin; more in the United States than in all of Ireland. But in the late nineteenth century, the sources of immigration began to shift, to southern and eastern Europe and beyond. Whether these newcomers wanted to save their souls, get a drink, find a job, or just take a stroll in the neighborhood, they had to deal with entrenched Irish Americans. Barrett reveals how the Irish vacillated between a progressive and idealistic impulse toward their fellow immigrants and a parochial defensiveness stemming from the hostility earlier generations had faced upon their own arrival in America. They imparted racist attitudes toward African Americans; they established ethnic “deadlines” across city neighborhoods; they drove other immigrants from docks, factories, and labor unions. Yet the social teachings of the Catholic Church, a sense of solidarity with the oppressed, and dark memories of poverty and violence in both Ireland and America ushered in a wave of progressive political activism that eventually embraced other immigrants. Drawing on contemporary sociological studies and diaries, newspaper accounts, and Irish American literature, The Irish Way illustrates how the interactions between the Irish and later immigrants on the streets, on the vaudeville stage, in Catholic churches, and in workplaces helped forge a multiethnic American identity that has a profound legacy in our cities today.

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1101560592

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9781101560594

On Irish Themes

By: James T. Farrell

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On Irish Themes

By: James T. Farrell

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512815780

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9781512815788

Young Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

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Young Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

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1101661550

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Chicago Stories

By: James Thomas Farrell

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Chicago Stories

By: James Thomas Farrell

Presents twenty-five short fiction stories by American author James Farrell, drawn from his first ten collection, all set in Chicago.

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Studs Lonigan

By: James T. Farrell

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By: James T. Farrell

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1101503165

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Father and Son

By: James Thomas Farrell

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Father and Son

By: James Thomas Farrell

The continuing saga of Danny O'Neill's struggles with harsh urban realities in early twentieth-century Chicago

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0252074955

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The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin

By: James Laughlin,Tennessee Williams

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The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin

By: James Laughlin,Tennessee Williams

The chronicle of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin’s unlikely yet enduring literary and personal relationship. In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared love of Hart Crane’s poetry. One of them was James Laughlin, the founder of a small publishing company called New Directions, which he had begun only seven years earlier as a sophomore at Harvard. The other was a young playwright named Thomas Lanier Williams, or "Tennessee," as he had just started to call himself. A little more than a week after that first encounter, Tennessee sent a letter to Jay—as he always addressed Laughlin in writing— expressing a desire to get together for an informal discussion of some of Tennessee’s poetry. "I promise you it would be extremely simple," he wrote, "and we would inevitably part on good terms even if you advised me to devote myself exclusively to the theatre for the rest of my life." So began a deep friendship that would last for forty-one years, through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bouts of depression, and serious and not-so-serious liaisons. Williams called Laughlin his "literary conscience," and New Directions serves to this day as Williams’s publisher, not only for The Glass Menagerie and his other celebrated plays but for his highly acclaimed novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry as well. Their story provides a window into the literary history of the mid-twentieth century and reveals the struggles of a great artist, supported in his endeavors by the publisher he considered a true friend.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393652742

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9780393652741

A Note on Literary Criticism

By: James Thomas Farrell

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A Note on Literary Criticism

By: James Thomas Farrell

James T. Farrell's compelling defense of the Marxist principles of literary criticism was hailed by Edmund Wilson as ""a remarkable event"." Now available in its entirety for the first time is more than five decades, A Note On Literary Criticism liberated a section of the Great Depression's radical intelligentsia from vulgar, over politicized approaches to cultural criticism.

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Columbia University Press

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0231082576

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9780231082570

The Chicago of Fiction

A Resource Guide

By: James A. Kaser

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The Chicago of Fiction

A Resource Guide

By: James A. Kaser

The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.

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672

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Scarecrow Press

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1461672589

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9781461672586

The Dunne Family

By: James Thomas Farrell

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The Dunne Family

By: James Thomas Farrell

An Irish American family struggles with the traditions of the old world and the ideas of the new one; with the conflict between generations as the older immigrant generation gives way to the ones born in America.

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0385112637

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9780385112635

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