J. D. Salinger

A young and ambitious writer named Jerome David Salinger set his goals very high very early in his career. He almost desperately wished to publish his early stories in The New Yorker magazine, the pinnacle, he felt, of America's literary world. But such was not to be for several long years and the length of one long world war. The New Yorker, whose tastes in literary matters were and remain notoriously prim and fickle, was not quite ready for this brash and over-confident newcomer with the cynical worldview and his habit of slangy dialogue. But other magazines were quick to recognize a new talent, a fresh voice at a time when the world verged on madness. Story magazine, an esteemed and influential small circulation journal devoted exclusively to the art of the short story and still active and respected today, was the first publication to publish the name J.D. Salinger and the story "The Young Folks" in 1940, an impressive view of New York's cocktail society and two young people talking past one another, their conversation almost completely meaningless and empty. His next short story was published in a college journal, The University of Kansas City Review, "Go See Eddie," a tale of quiet menace as an unsavory male character gradually turns up the pressure on a young lady to see a man named Eddie. Also published in 1940, the story is notable for the backstory that is omitted - a technique that Hemingway used to great effect. Four years later toward the end of Salinger's war experience saw the publication of "Once A Week Won't Kill You," again in Story magazine. Ostensibly about a newly minted soldier trying to tell an aging aunt he is going off to war, some may see the story as a metaphor for preparing one's family for the possibility of wartime death. Three Early Stories (Illustrated) is the first legitimately published book by J.D. Salinger in more than 50 years. Devault-Graves Digital Editions, a publisher that specializes in reprinting the finest in American period literature, is proud to bring you this anthology by one of America's most innovative and inspiring authors

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The Catcher in the Rye av J.D. Salinger er en av de mest innflytelsesrike romanene som ble skrevet i etterkrigstiden i USA. Boka ble første gang utgitt i 1951. Hovedpersonen Holden Caulfield personifiserer av den unge mannen som er revet mellom en kynisk livsanskuelse og motviljen mot å bli voksen, og vi følger ham over en kort periode der han mister sin uskyld. Klassiker og pensum! 17-åringen Holden er kastet ut av pensjonatskolen med stryk i nesten alle fag. I stedet for å reise hjem, skaper han seg en tid utenfor tiden; tre døgn alene i New York. Han tar inn på et hotell, farter omkring i taxi og fører sprø samtaler med sjåførene. Han forteller om foreldre og storebror og tenker inderlig varmt på lillesøster Phoebe. Han bløffer, lyver, fantaserer - og kræsjlander gang på gang. Og så drømmer han om å være "redderen i rugen" - helten som redder tusenvis av unger fra å styrte utfor et stup. Han avslutter sin fortettede beretning om de to døgnene "incognito" i New York med å gi leseren beskjed om at det får være nok - han vil ikke fortelle om sammenbruddet og om hvor han oppholder seg når han forteller oss hvordan alt gikk, og hvorfor. The Catcher in the Rye er av de epokegjørende romaner i etterkrigstidens vestlige litteratur. En av det tjuende århundrets viktigste bøker, en vidunderlig roman, et tidsbilde og samtidig et varig bilde på hvor angstfullt det kan være å være ung.

Franny och Zooey av J D Salinger i nyöversättning av Andreas Vesterlund. "Fantastiskt häftig att läsa! Lysande översättning!" C-G Karlsson, Go'kväll

J D Salingers mästerverk Nio noveller (Nine Stories) i nyöversättning av Mats Zetterberg. Följande berättelser ingår i boken: Bananfisken hugger idag, Vrickad i roten, Strax före kriget mot eskimåerna, Skrattande mannen, Nere vid båten, Till Esmé - kärleksfullt, sjaskigt, Vacker mun och ögon gröna, De Daumier-Smiths blå period, Teddy.

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeAn American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esme - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.

A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo, and our one full poet...'These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass - the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family - as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.'The Glasses are one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully-realized families in all fiction' The New York Times

Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.'This collection of nine stories includes the first appearance of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family, introducing Seymour Glass in the unforgettable 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'.'The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know' Ann Patchett

A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the RyeBuddy Glass is the second-eldest son in the eccentric and enchanting Glass family. He is on leave from the army during World War II, attending the wedding of his eldest brother, Seymour. But the wedding is not a happy one: it is overcast by a sense of strange suspense. Perhaps everyone is aware, on some level, of what is to come. And in the years after the tragedy, Buddy is haunted by memories of Seymour, turning over in his mind everything that came to pass with his deeply complex and unhappy older brother.With painful tenderness and great subtlety, Salinger unfolds a story of family tragedy from the point of view of a character - Buddy - who has long been suspected to be a portrait of the author himself.

J.D. Salinger gehört zu den großen amerikanischen Erzählern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berühmt machte ihn nicht nur der Roman ?Fänger im Roggen?, unsterblich wurden auch die Erzählungen über die New Yorker Familie Glass, über Franny und Zooey und ihre Geschwister.

Romanklassikeren FORBANDEDE UNGDOM i nyoversættelse af Klaus Rifbjerg. Den nye titel skyldes, at forfatteren har ønsket at oversættelsen er så tæt på det originale forlæg som muligt. Holden Caulfield bliver (endnu en gang) smidt ud af skolen et par dage før jul, og i stedet for at tage hjem til sine rige forældre på Upper East Side i NY indlogerer han sig på et hotel. Forældrene venter ham først hjem nogle dage senere, og det er disse dage, der er rammen om fortællingen om hans mislykkede forsøg på at score piger, talrige barbesøg, pengemangel og deraf følgende overnatning på Grand Central Station.

Der sechzehnjährige durch New York irrende Holden Caulfield ist zu einer Kultfigur ganzer Generationen geworden. "Der Fänger im Roggen" war J. D. Salingers erster Roman, mit dem er weltweit berühmt wurde. Allein im Rowohlt Taschenbuch wurden anderthalb Millionen Exemplare verkauft.

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. 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.