The Long Loneliness
by Dorothy Day
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1952
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 290 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Approachable1 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Long LonelinessHarperOne, 1997The standard paperback, with an introduction by Robert Coles.
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The autobiography of the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Day recounts her radical youth in Chicago and New York as a journalist among socialists and anarchists, her jailing as a suffragist, her common-law marriage on Staten Island, and the birth of her daughter, which led her to become a Catholic and leave the man she loved. With the French peasant-philosopher Peter Maurin she started a newspaper and houses of hospitality for the poor during the Depression, and the book ends with her account of that community.
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