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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Category: Classics | 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 Esmé - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories by J. D. Salinger
Category: Classics
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: Classics
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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics
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
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction by J.D. Salinger
Category: Classics
A Note from the Author- The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker - RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS in 1955, SEYMOUR - An Introduction in 1959. Whatever their differences in mood or effect, they are both very much concerned with Seymour Glass, who is the main character ...Show more
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour by J. D. Salinger
Category: Classics
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour" are now reissued in a trade paper edition.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction by J. D. Salinger
Category: Classics
In honour of the centennial of the birth of J. D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s. 'The two long pieces in this book originally came ou ...Show more
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D Salinger
Category: Classics
J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. First published 1951.