Knihy od: Salinger, J. D.

For Esmé 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...

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 second...

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...

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...

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with cynical adolescent. Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he´s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps...

Dzherom Devid Selindzher - odin iz populyarnejshikh amerikanskikh pisatelej XX veka, vsemirnuyu slavu kotoromu prines vyshedshij v 1951 godu roman Nad propast´yu vo rzhi. Ne ostalis´ takzhe bez vnimaniya chitatelej povesti i rasskazy pisatelya. V nastoyaschem izdanii predstavlen sbornik Devyat´ rasskazov, ob´edinyayuschij vse luchshee, chto bylo sozdano Selindzherom v oblasti...

Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories set in twentieth-century New York. Front Cover

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.

Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour´s wedding day.