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The Catcher in the Rye
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 hi…
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Nine Stories
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Franny and Zooey
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Seymour, An Introduction
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Stories from the New Yorker, 1950-1960
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The complete uncollected short stories of J.D. Salinger
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J. D. Salinger : The Last Interview
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Yukseltin Tavan Kirisini Ustalar - Seymour
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Hapworth 16, 1924
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Three Early Stories
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Franny e Zooey
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Il Giovane Holden
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Kurz vor dem Krieg gegen dieEskimos