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The original title of "The Catcher in the Rye" is the only full-length novel by American writer Jerome David Salinger. Salinger limited the beginning and end of the story to the three days when 16-year-old middle school student Holden Caulfield left school and wandered around New York. He also used the stream-of-consciousness writing method to fully explore the inner world of a teenage boy. Anger and anxiety are the two major themes of this book. The protagonist's experiences and thoughts resonate strongly among teenagers and are warmly welcomed by readers, especially middle school students. The New York Times book review wrote: In the United States, reading "The Catcher in the Rye" is as important as getting the approval of your instructor for graduation. Later, "The Catcher in the Rye" directly influenced the creation of this type of novel.

It mainly tells the story of the protagonist, Robinson Crusoe, who encountered a disaster when he went to sea. He was first attacked by pirates, then moved to a plantation, and finally drifted to an uninhabited island. After insisting on living on the island for 28 years, he finally returned to the society where he originally lived. The book was first published on April 25, 1719. Many years after the novel was published, it was translated into many languages ​​and widely circulated around the world, and was adapted into movies and TV series many times.

The story tells a tortuous and sad love story between a young man and a courtesan from Paris's upper class society. Through the love tragedy of a prostitute, the work reveals the corrupt life of the upper class of the French July Dynasty. A bloody and tearful indictment of the hypocritical morality of the aristocratic bourgeoisie. In the history of French literature, this is the first work in which a prostitute is the protagonist.