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

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

Presents a trio of novels that chronicles the life and times of would-be tough guy Studs Lonigan during the turbulent era of World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression.

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

The first book in Farrell's five-volume series, A World I Never Made introduces three generations from two families, the working-class O'Neills and the lower-middle-class O'Flahertys.

'Studs Lonigan, ' the story of an Irish-American youth growing to adulthood in Chicago, is considered by many to be one of the finest American novels from the first half of the twentieth century, and its author was widely regarded as the ...

In April of 1931 many American expatriates were leaving Paris because of the Depression that followed the stock market crash of 1929. A gifted but naive young couple, James and Dorothy Farrell, moved against the current.