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    Three Early Stories (Illustrated)
    Three Early Stories (Illustrated)
    Three Early Stories (Illustrated)
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    Three Early Stories (Illustrated)

    By J. D. Salinger

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    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.
    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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 12, 2014
    ISBN9780989671453
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      A good look at the author in his early formation.
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      An interesting - if underwhelming - look at three early short stories by future Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger. Out of the three short stories, the only one to really stand out is The Younger Folks, which probably has less to do with the content and more to do with its foreshadowing of Catcher in the Rye by its unflinching portrayal of the young adult "phonies" that Holden Caulfield would soon rally against in Salinger's iconic masterpiece.

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    Three Early Stories (Illustrated) - J. D. Salinger

    The Young Folks was originally published in Story magazine, copyright ©1940 by Story Magazine, Inc. Go See Eddie was originally published in University of Kansas City Review, December, 1940. Once A Week Won’t Kill You was originally published in Story magazine, November-December, 1944. Three Early Stories (Illustrated) copyright ©2014 by The Devault-Graves Agency, Memphis, Tennessee. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without the permission of the publishers.

    Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-9896714-6-0

    ISBN:9780989671453

    Ebook lSBN: 978-0-9896714-5-3

    Cover design: Martina Voriskova

    Title page design: Martina Voriskova

    Illustrations: Anna Rose Yoken

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    Table of Contents

    The Young Folks

    Go See Eddie

    Once A Week Won't Kill You

    The Young Folks

    ABOUT ELEVEN O’CLOCK, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o’clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodeling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch. Edna’s direction still the same, Lucille Henderson sighed as heavily as her dress would allow, and then, knitting what there was of her brows, gazed about the room at the noisy young people she had invited to drink up her father’s scotch. Then abruptly, she swished to where William Jameson Junior sat, biting his fingernails and staring at the small blonde girl sitting on the floor with three young men from Rutgers.

    Hello there, Lucille Henderson said, clutching William Jameson Junior’s arm. Come on, she said. There’s someone I’d like you to meet.

    Who?

    This girl. She’s swell. And Jameson followed her across the room, at the same time trying to make short work of a hangnail on his thumb.

    Edna baby, Lucille Henderson said, "I’d love

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