Nine Stories

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Nine Stories is a celebrated collection of short stories by J. D. Salinger that explores themes of innocence, trauma, and spiritual longing through understated, character-driven narratives.

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Nine Stories canonical 4

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instanceOf book
short story collection
author J. D. Salinger
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception celebrated
highly influential
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre literary fiction
short stories
hasAlternativeEditionRegion United Kingdom
hasAlternativeEditionTitle For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
surface form: For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
hasCharacter Esme
surface form: Esmé

Seymour Glass
Teddy McArdle
hasISBN 9780316767729
hasLibraryOfCongressClassification PS3537.A426 N5
hasOCLCNumber 755
hasStory A Perfect Day for Bananafish
De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period
Down at the Dinghy
For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Teddy
The Laughing Man
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
isNotableFor exploration of psychological and spiritual themes
recurring Glass family characters
language English
literaryMovement postwar American literature
mediaType print
narrativeStyle character-driven
understated
notableStory A Perfect Day for Bananafish
For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
Teddy
numberOfStories 9
originalTitle Nine Stories self-link
publicationDate 1953
publisher Little, Brown and Company
setInPeriod post-World War II era
theme alienation
childhood
innocence
spiritual longing
trauma
war and its aftermath

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