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A WORLD I NEVER MADE by James T. Farrell is the first volume in the "Danny O'Neill" series of 5 volumes, and most critics have suggested that the author had intended the O'Neill series to balance out Farrell's better-known STUDS LONIGAN trilogy, in which Danny O'Neill is a minor character.  While STUDS LONIGAN also portrays the struggles of the working class American-Irish families in Chicago in the early 1900s, and the constant attraction of criminal activities to which Studs Lonigan is regularly drawn, the "Danny O'Neill" series was intended to provide a contrast against the hopelessness into which Studs had fallen -- that Danny O'Neill could utilize his intellect to fight against the poverty which surrounded him, and rise above his surroundings to escape the "world I never made."  This first volume covers only the year 1911, when Danny O'Neill is about 6 or 7 years old, and exposes the reader to the poverty, alcoholism, petty graft, and prostitution to which young Danny was exposed.  Readers may find it comparable to LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL by THOMAS WOLFE.

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