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... Lonigan ( Young Lonigan , 1932 , The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan , 1934 , and Judgment Day , 1935 ) . It is among the most depressing novels ever written , and one of the most honest and disturbing . In the character of Studs , the ...
... Lonigan ( Young Lonigan , 1932 , The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan , 1934 , and Judgment Day , 1935 ) . It is among the most depressing novels ever written , and one of the most honest and disturbing . In the character of Studs , the ...
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... Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play amid ...
... Lonigan Farrell prefixed a quotation from Plato which seems to sum up his point of view exactly : ' Except in the case of some rarely gifted nature there never will be a good man who has not from his childhood been used to play amid ...
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... Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a tart but whose memory haunts him on and off for the rest of his life . His aspirations are abortive , for he is controlled entirely by circum- stances and ...
... Lonigan , finally rejects him after he has picked up venereal disease from a tart but whose memory haunts him on and off for the rest of his life . His aspirations are abortive , for he is controlled entirely by circum- stances and ...
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British I | 11 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
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