Salinger's Works Collection (4 Volumes in Total)
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About This Novel
"The Catcher in the Rye": one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century, selected into the reading lists of many prestigious schools around the world and selected as the Book of the Century by the New York Public Library, with a cumulative global sales of 70 million copies. Hemingway, Nabokov, John Updike, Beckett, Su Tong, Mai Jia, Zheng Yuanjie, Bei Dao... A masterpiece in the hearts of generations of literary and art masters. Salinger resurrected Holden, who had disappeared on the battlefield in previous works, and recounted his various adventures during his three-day urban wandering after dropping out of school. The language of the novel is plain and restrained; Salinger uses dual characters, metaphors, intertextuality, puns... To explore the steep cliffs and dark paths between one's self and the world, innocence and maturity, life and death; and presents a sincere requiem for all that has passed. "Nine Stories": Before reading these nine stories, you dare not say you know what a short story is. "The Catcher in the Rye" is Salinger's only short story collection, included in the "Western Canon" as a writing model. The nine stories twist, complement each other, and reflect Salinger's beloved Glass family like a prism. "Franny and Zooey": Following "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Nine Stories", Salinger continues to write songs of innocence and tenderness. This book is composed of two mutually related novels, "Franny" and "Zooey". Pushing the conflicting sense of self-existence in "The Catcher in the Rye" and the discussion of spiritual salvation to a deeper level. The novel relies on exquisite dialogue to advance, is full of metaphors, turns a thousand times, and is hearty. The beautiful sister Franny is like the "female version of Holden", extremely confused and on the verge of suffocation; the brother Zooey uses words full of inspiration and humor to rescue his sister from the shell of autism. This is also a story about love and the expression of love. "Raise the Beams, Carpenters; Seymour: A Biography": "The Catcher in the Rye" Salinger's last published work before his death, a book of comfort dedicated to wanderers trapped at a spiritual crossroads. It is a powerful supplement to "Nine Stories" and "Francny and Zooey", deciphering the events of Seymour's life and death, and carving out a group portrait of the "Glass Family". It is also a book of comfort for wanderers trapped at a spiritual crossroads: the confrontation with absurd reality may make people crazy, but the penetrating poetic world in our hearts will never die.
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