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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Category: Fiction | Series: JDS
Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the R ...Show more
For Esme - With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories - don't re-order this edition, same as nine stories by J.D. Salinger
Category: Fiction
The original American text of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"; "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"; "The Laughing Man"; "Down at the Dinghy"; "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"; "For Esme - With Love and Squalor"; "Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes"; "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" and "Teddy".
For Esme - with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: JDS
"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger's most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in ...Show more
For Esmé - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories by J. D. Salinger
Category: Short Stories
An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to fea ...Show more
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Category: Classic
The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, ...Show more
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Category: Fiction | Series: JDS
Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The secon ...Show more
Nine Stories by Salinger, J. D
Category: Fiction | Series: JDS
The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Category: Fiction
First published in "The New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the ...Show more