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J. D. Salinger
Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty…
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Two stories in Salinger’s series about the Glass family, settlers in twentieth-century New York.
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DeDaumier-Smith’s Blue Period, Teddy, and A Perfect Day for Bananafish are among the nine works in a collection of Salinger’s perceptive and realistic short stories.
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J D Salinger’s fiction have captivated readers for more than 50 years. His works include Nine Stories ; Raise High the Roof Beam ; Carpenters ; and Franny and Zooey…
Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the ‘phony’…
Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the ‘phony’ aspects of society…
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Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school.
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Will Hochman
Despite J. D. Salinger’s many silences-from the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public eye after 1965 to his death in 2010-the unforgettable characters…
Eberhard Alsen
Before J.D. Salinger became famous for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye and infamous as a literary recluse, he was a soldier in World War II. Eberhard Alsen…
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Kenneth Slawenski
In this national bestseller, Slawenski examines the life of one of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye…
Josef Benson
This book provides a fascinating examination of J.D. Salinger and his landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Focusing on Salinger and his beloved protagonist, this book reveals how the…
Best known for The Catcher in the Rye, which continues to be read and discussed by secondary school students, undergraduates, and scholars, Salinger also wrote numerous shorter works.
Joyce Maynard
In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called ‘An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life’. In spite of the…
Alex Carulli
Born in New York on the night of John Lennon’s assassination Ros is a celebrated photographer who claims to have killed reclusive writer J. D. Salinger. Flowing as a torrent…
This is a biography of one of the most famous and best-selling authors of our time. Salinger’s ‘Catcher in the Rye’ has sold more than 65 million copies and, today…
This book looks at how an iconic novel has resonated with several generations of readers. By focusing on Salinger and his beloved protagonist, this book demonstrates how Catcher has affected…
Cengage Learning Gale
A study guide for J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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A Study Guide for J. D. Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
J D Salinger
For use in schools and libraries only. With the author’s recent passing, the classic novel about young Holden Caulfield’s disillusionment with the adult world and its phoniness will only rise…
The first of these two stories was originally published in the New Yorker in 1955. The second was originally published in 1959 in the same magazine.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise…
Offers a collection of two novellas.
Includes two of the author’s critically acclaimed stories. This title contains a story that recounts the author’s meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. It also contains…
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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…
For use in schools and libraries only. In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City
A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The…
Date of publication from publisher’s website.
Originally published: Little, Brown, 1953.
‘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…
In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, January 1963 –Title page verso.
After leaving prep school Holden Caulfield spends three days on his own in New York City.
A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.
William Burden,J. D. Salinger
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