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    Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection
    Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection
    Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection
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    Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection

    By Robert Crayola

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    J.D. Salinger followed up his enormously popular The Catcher in the Rye with a collection of nine stories that were equally powerful and mysterious. With this new guide, you will have an even greater understanding of these challenging stories, avoid confusion, and unravel the mysteries Salinger included in the text. Included in this guide: a biography of author J.D. Salinger, a look at the book's context, its literary elements, detailed story summaries, analysis, and suggestions for essays. This is the definitive guide to Nine Stories, concise, easy to understand, and guaranteed to add to your enjoyment of this classic book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Crayola
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311299956
    Nine Stories: A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection
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    Robert Crayola

    Robert Crayola is the author of numerous educational guides and videos, plus the following works: ILLUSTRATED BOOKS & STORIES William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (2011) The Little Girl and the Little Boy (2016) The Past is Still Happening (2016) There Is No Government (2016) COMICS Prince Pander (2014) The Pubic War (2015) Batman LSD: The Living Nightmare (2016) Star Wars: Vader & Son (2016) SHORT FICTION Savage Tales (2013) DRAMA 18 Plays For Untalented Actors (2012) NONFICTION Cheat Codes For Life (2010) FICTION Dr. Jew (2010) Ueda Sensei Solves Crimes of Depravity and Perversity (2011) Ueda Sensei Vomits on the Garbage of Humanity (2012) Ueda Sensei Castrates the Insidious Underground (2013) Ueda Sensei Penetrates the Vagina of Morbidity (2017) SHORT TEXTS Prayer Magic: Conversations With Reality (2008) Vipassana Meditation: My Experiences at a 10-Day Retreat (2012) ALBUMS Alpha Cat (2011)

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      Nine Stories - Robert Crayola

      Nine Stories:

      A Reader's Guide to the J.D. Salinger Story Collection

      by Robert Crayola

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Robert Crayola

      https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/robertcrayola

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      The Elements of Literature

      Story Summaries & Commentary

      A Perfect Day for Bananafish

      Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

      Just Before the War with the Eskimos

      The Laughing Man

      Down at the Dinghy

      For Esmé – with Love and Squalor

      Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

      De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

      Teddy

      Critical Questions & Essay Topics

      Conclusion

      INTRODUCTION

      This guide to J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories (published as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories in many countries) will add to your understanding of the book and get you thinking about its deeper dimensions. We will examine it from a variety of angles and this will be beneficial whether you are totally new to the book or have already familiarized yourself with the text.

      Following publication of The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, J.D. Salinger was one of the most acclaimed and successful writers of his time. His fans eagerly awaited a new work. The release of Nine Stories in 1953 didn't quite fit the bill – all of the stories had previously been published in magazine form – but they made the stories available to a wider audience. The collection met with great success and contains some of his most well-known works.

      Let's begin our study by looking at the author of Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger.

      AUTHOR: Jerome David Salinger was born in New York City on January 1, 1919. He was raised Jewish but would later learn that his mother wasn't actually Jewish. He published in school newspapers growing up and was socially active in numerous clubs.

      After high school, he began college at NYU but soon dropped out. He tried to make it in the meat-packing industry, even going to Austria for the business, but he quickly returned just before the Nazis annexed Austria.

      He began college once more in Pennsylvania and again dropped out. He continued writing, however, and took a writing class at Columbia University. He had his first story professionally published in Story magazine in 1940. He would submit stories to The New Yorker and finally had Slight Rebellion off Madison accepted, but because of the war references, it was not published until 1946. It featured the character of Holden Caulfield, later the narrator in The Catcher in the Rye.

      In 1942 Salinger was drafted and served active duty during several major battles. While in Europe, he arranged to meet Ernest Hemingway, whom he respected. Hemingway saw great promise in the young writer and encouraged him.

      Salinger continued to write and submit stories during the war, but he suffered a great deal of traumatic stress. When the war ended, he married a German woman and returned with her to the U.S. The marriage failed after eight months and she returned to Germany.

      Salinger tried to have a book of stories published at this time, but the deal fell through. He continued to write and publish, and with the publication in The New Yorker of A Perfect Day for Bananafish he secured a contract with the magazine that gave them first-rights to publish his stories. He would release short works mainly through them for the remainder of his career. The story would mark the

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