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Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor".
Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, A Perfect Day for Bananafish and For Esmé – with Love and Squalor.
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Nine Stories, published in 1953, is a collection of Salinger’s short stories, and is considered one of the finest short-story collections in the English language. Taking his cues from such masters of the medium as Guy de Maupassant and James Joyce, Salinger presents a series of brief narratives or vignettes – rarely over twenty pages in ...
- Nine Stories
- Three Early Stories
- Franny and Zooey
- Other Salinger Short Stories
Salinger’s best known collection of short fiction is Nine Stories, published in 1953. It includes the following stories:
Three Early Storieswas first published in 2014 and was the first time these stories appeared in book form. It includes: 1. “The Young Folks“, where two young people at a cocktail party have an inane, disconnected conversation. 2. “Go See Eddie“, where a brother tries to convince his sister to pursue a job with his friend and to break off a relation...
The volume Franny and Zooey, first published together in 1961, contains the short story “Franny” and the longer story (novella) “Zooey”.
Salinger published many other short stories in magazines which, as far as I know, haven’t been collected yet. He also wrote many others that remain unpublished.
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.
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Nine Stories is Salinger's first short-story collection. It followed two years after the author's debut novel and critical success, Catcher in the Rye (1951), and contains Salinger's two best-known stories about war, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) and "For Esmé—With Love and Squalor" (1950). The other stories are "Uncle Wiggily in ...
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J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of stories published between 1948 and 1953, most of which appeared originally in The New Yorker. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Muriel Glass speaks with her mother from the phone in her hotel room.
