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Holden Caulfield is the narrator and main character of The Catcher in the Rye.The novel recounts Holden's week in New York City during Christmas break, circa 1948/1949, following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a preparatory school in Pennsylvania based loosely on Salinger's alma mater Valley Forge Military Academy.
The main character, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion. [6] Caulfield, nearly of age, gives his opinion on a wide variety of topics as he narrates his recent life events. The Catcher in the Rye has been translated widely. [7] About one million copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books. [8]
In 1974, a pirated collection of 22 works of short fiction—gleaned mostly from these early sources—entitled The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, Volumes 1 and 2, began appearing in bookstores. Though unauthorized by Salinger, an estimated 25,000 copies were printed. Published by "John Greenberg" - a pseudonym used by a ...
October 1945. "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" is an uncollected work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger which appeared in the October 1945 issue of Esquire. [1][2] The story was published in the 1958 anthology The Armchair Esquire, edited by Arnold Gingrich and L. Rust Hills. "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" is the seventh of Salinger's nine ...
21 December 1946. “Slight Rebellion off Madison” is an uncollected work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger which appeared in the 21 December 1946 issue of The New Yorker. [1] The story is the first of nine stories to feature Salinger’s iconic protagonist Holden Morrisey Caulfield and the Caulfield family. [2] [3]
"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945 [1] issue of Collier's magazine. [2] Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him".
Last Day of the Last Furlough. " Last Day of the Last Furlough " is a short story written by American writer J. D. Salinger in 1944 and published in the July 15th issue of Saturday Evening Post. [1] It covers the last days of furlough for Babe Gladwaller before he is shipped off to World War II. Babe spends most of the time with his little ...
Screeching Weasel's "I Wrote Holden Caulfield" from their album How to Make Enemies and Irritate People is named after the novel's main character, Holden Caulfield and written in response to Green Day's "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?". Pencey Prep was a band from New Jersey formed by Frank Iero. The name of the band is a reference to the school ...