J. D Salinger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The hero-narrator 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Two long stories originally written for the New Yorker containing episodes from the life of the Glass family with Seymor Glass, the oldest child, as the central character. Since Seymour never appears the episodes are recounted by his brother Buddy, an English teacher at a girls' college.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Volume containing two interrelated stories by J.D. Salinger, published in book form in 1961. The stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, concern Franny and Zooey Glass, two members of the family that was the subject of most of Salinger's short fiction. Franny is an intellectually precocious late adolescent who tries to attain spiritual purification by obsessively reiterating the "Jesus prayer" as an antidote to the perceived superficiality...
4) Nine stories
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic.
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1974
Language
English
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Contents: Archibald MacLeish - Norman Mailer - John P. Marquand - Herman Melville - H. L. Mencken - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Arthur Miller - Henry Miller - Marianne Moore - Wright Morris - Vladimir Nabokov - Howard Nemerov - Reinhold Niebuhr - Frank Norris - Flannery O'Connor - John O'Hara - Eugene O'Neill - Edgar Allan Poe - Katherine Anne Porter - Ezra Pound - John Crowe Ransom - Edwin Arlington Robinson - Theodore Roethke - J. D. Salinger - Carl...