Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) 1904-1979

Overview

Works:	716 works in 2,185 publications in 5 languages and 55,119 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Psychological fiction Novels Proletarian fiction Domestic fiction Literature Biographies Short stories Reviews
Roles:	Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Other, win, Contributor
Classifications:	PS3511.A738, 813.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about James T Farrell

American fiction, 1920-1940: John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand [and] John Steinbeck by Joseph Warren Beach( Book )
James T. Farrell by Edgar Marquess Branch( Book )
Novelists' America; fiction as history, 1910-1940 by Nelson Manfred Blake( Book )
The American short story : a critical survey by Arthur Voss( Book )
The radical novel in the United States, 1900-1954: some interrelations of literature and society by Walter B Rideout( Book )

Proletarian writers of the thirties by David Madden( Book )
American literary naturalism, a divided stream by Charles Child Walcutt( Book )
On native grounds : an interpretation of modern American prose literature by Alfred Kazin( Book )
The American city novel by Blanche H Gelfant( Book )
James T. Farrell by Edgar Marquess Branch( Book )
A bibliography of James T. Farrell's writings, 1921-1957 by Edgar Marquess Branch( Book )
James T. Farrell : the revolutionary socialist years by Alan M Wald( Book )
Granville Hicks in the New masses by Granville Hicks( Book )
October cities : the redevelopment of urban literature by Carlo Rotella( Book )
The modern American urban novel : nature as "interior structure" by Arnold L Goldsmith( Book )
American diversity, American identity : the lives and works of 145 writers who define the American experience( Book )
An honest writer : the life and times of James T. Farrell by Robert K Landers( Book )
Fifty years of the American novel; a Christian appraisal by Harold C Gardiner( Book )
Makers of the city by Lewis Fried( Book )
Writing Chicago : modernism, ethnography, and the novel by Carla Cappetti( Book )

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Most widely held works by James T Farrell

Studs Lonigan : a trilogy containing Young Lonigan, The young manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment day by James T Farrell( Book )

101 editions published between 1932 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,059 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

About a boy of the Chicago slums who aspires to be a "big shot". Described by the author as "a study of spiritual poverty."

A world I never made by James T Farrell( Book )

45 editions published between 1916 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 930 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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. The lives of the O'Neills in particular reflect the tragic consequences of poverty, as young Danny O'Neill's parents--unable to sustain their large family--send him to live with his grandmother. Seen here at the age of seven, Danny is fraught with feelings of anxiety and dislocation as he learns the ins and outs of life on the street

The short stories of James T. Farrell by James T Farrell( Book )

46 editions published between 1934 and 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Short stories of Irish-American writer James T. Farrell, many set in the south side of Chicago and featuring protagonists who either succumb to elements of immoral urban life or escape through the pursuit of self-knowledge

Reflections at fifty by James T Farrell( Book )

27 editions published between 1953 and 1964 in English and French and held by 858 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

My days of anger by James T Farrell( Book )

32 editions published between 1934 and 2008 in English and held by 800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This novel chronicles Danny O'Neill's coming of age. Recording his reactions to initiation into college life at the University of Chicago and the imminent death of his grandmother, one of his primary caretakers, Danny realizes the value of time and gains confidence in his writing abilities. As he works on his first novel, he prepares to leave his family, his Catholicism, and his neighborhood in Chicago behind for a new life as a writer in New York

The death of Nora Ryan by James T Farrell( Book )

7 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 765 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The league of frightened Philistines, and other papers by James T Farrell( Book )

25 editions published between 1930 and 1948 in English and held by 756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On Irish themes by James T Farrell( Book )

8 editions published between 1982 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

No star is lost by James T Farrell( Book )

38 editions published between 1933 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 734 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother in the comparative luxury of an apartment. The new light it throws on the environment is in its picture of the poverty of the O'Neills, with their excitement on payday, when they know they will get meat for supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors, they also make desperate efforts to get along better, to be patient and keep sober, so that their explosions seem pathetic rather than vicious. -- Time Magazine

Literature and morality by James T Farrell( Book )

19 editions published between 1946 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Father and son by James T Farrell( Book )

37 editions published between 1940 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 689 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book follows Danny O'Neill through his struggle into young adulthood among the O'Flaherty and O'Neill families. Full of bewilderment and anxiety, Danny experiences high school, the death of his father, and his first full-time job at the Express Company that employed his father. Fraught with failed attempts to communicate with his father and peers, Danny is burdened by his family's constant economic and emotional demands

The silence of history by James T Farrell( Book )

27 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in English and held by 671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Literary essays, 1954-1974 by James T Farrell( Book )

8 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bernard Clare by James T Farrell( Book )

13 editions published between 1946 and 1948 in English and held by 667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young writer comes to New York to make a name for himself

A note on literary criticism by James T Farrell( Book )

31 editions published between 1936 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The face of time by James T Farrell( Book )

32 editions published between 1953 and 2008 in English and Italian and held by 651 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The final book in James T. Farrell's five-volume series on the O'Neill-O'Flaherty families. The book chronicles the slow and painful decline of Danny O'Neill's grandfather Tom and aunt Louise, and features the family's experience with emigration from Ireland and their embarking on a new life in Chicago in the late nineteenth century

The modern short story in the making by Whit Burnett( Book )

1 edition published in 1964 in English and held by 623 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from various types of short stories, with writers' and editors' commentaries, and definitions of the types of stories. Authors range from Mailer to Tennessee Williams

Dialogue on John Dewey by Corliss Lamont( Book )

9 editions published between 1859 and 1960 in English and Japanese and held by 590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Record of an evening's conversation about the personality and ideas of the philosopher and educator, John Dewey, by intimate friends and professional colleagues

Lonely for the future by James T Farrell( Book )

20 editions published between 1966 and 1974 in English and French and held by 569 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three young men attempt to come to terms with the immediate problems of Chicago in the 20s, in fulfilling their dreams

Artie, and, Pink Marsh : two novels by George Ade( Book )

3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Artie: The novel captures the character and lively vernacular speech of a young Loop office worker in a series of sketches first developed in Ade's feature column in the Chicago Record, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town."

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