Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Salinger's classic coming-of-age story portrays one young man's funny and poignant experiences with life, love, and sex.

《九故事(英汉双语版)》是美国著名作家J．D．塞林格(1919-2010)继《麦田里的守望者》之后出版的第二《九故事(英汉双语版)》，初版于一九五三年，其中除《下到小船里》、《德·杜米埃-史密斯的蓝色时期》外，其余七篇均发表于《纽约客》杂志。
《九故事》是塞林格的代表作，也是世界公认的经典短篇小说集。

First published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the novel's composition and publication, the mixed reception it has received from critics and scholars, the arguments surrounding the attempts at censorship, and its position in a postmodernist literary world. The essays that follow focus on various aspects of the novel: its ideology within he context of the cold war, its portrait of a particular subculture within American society, its account of patterns of adolescent crisis, and its rich and complex narrative structure.

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed."

《弗兰妮与祖伊》是美国当代著名作家J.D.塞林格继《麦田里的守望者》、《九故事》之后出版的第三部作品，由《弗兰妮》与《祖伊》这两个相互有关联的中短篇小说组成，二者均发表于《纽约客》杂志，于一九六一年结集出版。

短篇小说集《九故事》是美国当代著名作家J.D.塞林格继《麦田里的守望者》之后出版的第二本书，初版于一九五三年，其中除《下到小船里》《德·杜米埃-史密斯的蓝色时期》外，其余七篇均发表于《纽约客》杂志。
《九故事》是J.D.塞林格的代表作，也是世界公认的当代经典短篇小说集。

这本小说一出版，就受到国内青少年的热烈欢迎，认为它道出了自己的心声，一时大、中学校的校园里到处都模仿小说主人公霍尔顿——他们在大冬天身穿风衣，倒戴着红色猎人帽，学着霍尔顿的言语动作。甚至在1960年代初期，外国学者只要跟美国学生一谈到文学，他们就马上提出了《麦田里的守望者》。
《麦田里的守望者》之所以受到重视，不仅是由于作者创造了一种新颖的艺术风格，通过第一人称以青少年的说话口吻叙述全书，更重要了资本主义社会精神文明的实质。人活着除了物质生活外，还要有精神生活，而且在一个比较富裕的社会里，精神生活往往比物质生活更为重要。
主人公是16岁的中学生霍尔顿·考菲尔德是当代美国文学中最早出现的反英雄形象之一，霍尔顿出身中纽约一个富裕的中产阶级家庭。学校里的老师和自己的家长强迫他好好读书，为的是出人头地，以便将来买辆凯迪拉克，而在学校里一天到晚干的，就是谈女人，酒和性，他看不惯周围的一切， 根本没心思用功读书，因而老是挨罚，到他第四次被开除时，他不敢回家。便只身在美国最繁华的纽约城游荡了一天两夜，住小客店，逛夜总会滥交女友他在电影院里百无聊赖地消磨时光，糊里糊涂地召了妓女，情不自禁的与虚荣的女友搂搂抱抱，与此同时，他的内心又十分苦闷，企图逃出虚伪的成人世界去寻批纯洁与真理的经历与感受。这种精神上无法调和的极度矛盾最终令他彻底崩溃，躺倒在精神病院里。