In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first Salinger editions published in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' them...
'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you wan...
"The Catcher in the Rye" is one of the most popular coming-of-age novels ever written, and its 17-year-old protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon of teen angst. The new full-length critical essays in this title provide a comprehensive critical look at this classic by J.D. Salinger. Master...
"Nad propast'yu vo rzhi" — samaya znamenitaya povest' Dzh. D. Selindzhera, prinesshaya avtoru grandioznyj uspekh i neobychajnuyu populyarnost' kak v SSHA, tak i vo vsyom mire. Sovremenniki prinyali etu knigu kak otkrovenie. Molodye lyudi videli v glavnom geroe povesti shestnadcatiletnem Holdene Kolf...