Salinger, J. D

Presents nine short stories by twentieth-century American author J. D. Salinger, most shadowed by the legacy of war.

Includes: A perfect day for Bananafish; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut; Just before the war with the Eskimos; The laughing man; Down at the dinghy; For Esm?--with love and squalor; Pretty mouth and green my eyes; De Daumier-Smith's blue period; Teddy.

Franny, dissatisfied with everything, has a disastrous date with her boyfriend Lane. When she returns home her older brother helps her solve her problem.

A collection on nine short stories by J.D. Salinger with a variety of themes on the human condition.

Two stories containing episodes from the life of the Glass family, with Seymour Glass, the oldest child, as the central character.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 when J. D. Salinger had already achieved commercial success and critical acclaim as a short-story writer. The ultimate troubled teenage story is told by seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield who has just flunked out of his third prep school. This novel spells out everything that has ever troubled a teenager about the adult world during any period in history---hypocrisy, insincerity, lack of compassion, lack of respect for everything, and the importance of material possessions over people.

Literary Masters is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Masterpieces and Literary Topics). Each Literary Masters volume introduces a significant author and covers basic biographical information. J. D. Salinger, born in New York City, was a gifted actor in high school but was also a writer. Unsuccessful with a college curriculum, he focused on writing and after taking a creative writing course at Columbia University, he began to sell stories to magazines. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), first makes his appearance in a 1941 story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison", in The New Yorker Magazine.

This collection of stories deals mainly with sensitive and troubled adolescents and children.