Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010

The catcher in the rye by J. D Salinger ( Book )
610 editions published between 1945 and 2011 in 38 languages and held by 6,737 libraries worldwide
Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Franny and Zooey by J. D Salinger ( Book )
190 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in 21 languages and held by 4,619 libraries worldwide
Meet Franny and her younger brother, Zooey, in two Salinger stories.

Nine stories by J. D Salinger ( Book )
186 editions published between 1948 and 2011 in 27 languages and held by 3,779 libraries worldwide
A collection of 9 realistic and perceptive short stories including A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Teddy.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and Seymour--an introduction by J. D Salinger ( Book )
95 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in 16 languages and held by 3,134 libraries worldwide
Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour's wedding day.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters, and : Seymour an introduction by J. D Salinger ( Book )
27 editions published between 1955 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 634 libraries worldwide
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.

For Esmé, with love and squalor by J. D Salinger ( Book )
40 editions published between 1950 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 206 libraries worldwide
Indhold: A perfect day for bananafish ; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ; The laughing man ; Down at the Dinghy ; Just before the war with the Eskimos ; For Esmé - with love and squalor ; Pretty mouth and green my eyes ; De Daumier-Smith's blue period ; Teddy.

For Esmé - with love and squalor : and other stories by J. D Salinger ( Book )
29 editions published between 1953 and 2010 in English and held by 201 libraries worldwide

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters ; Seymour : an introduction by J. D Salinger ( Book )
11 editions published between 1964 and 1994 in 4 languages and held by 106 libraries worldwide
The author writes: 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 in my still-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me that they had better be collected together, if not deliberately paired off, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly or undesirably close contact with new material in the series. There is only my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass stories coming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but I suspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better. Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass family peculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't say why, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of my fiction.

The catcher in the rye : J.D. Salinger ( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 98 libraries worldwide

Prize stories of 1949 : the O. Henry awards ( Book )
1 edition published in 1949 in English and held by 90 libraries worldwide