| Key Features: Introductions by renowned critic Harold Bloom consider each work and its significance. Brief biographical sketches offer insight into each author's life. "The Story Behind the Story" details the circumstances surrounding the inception and development of the work. Summaries with analysis review and explain key points of each work. Selections from critical essays written by leading scholars provide accessible explorations of the work. Annotated bibliographies direct readers to additi....[more] |
| The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker/EM 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 ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've....[more] |
1953
| In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist le....[more] |
1963
| "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" and "Seymour" are now reissued in a trade paper edition. |
1984
| A guide to reading "Catcher in the Rye" with a critical and appreciative mind.ncludes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paperuggestions, and a reading list. |
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