Editions

The Catcher in the Rye

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241984758

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 22mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 301g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Catcher in the Rye

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.

'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 want to know the truth.'

The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels.

'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241984758

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 204mm x 22mm x 138mm

  • Weight: 301g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • I liked it very much indeed, more than anything for a long time.

    Samuel Beckett

  • He wrote a perfect novel and it changed US culture forever

    Independent

  • His work meant a lot to me when I was a young person and his writing still sings.

    Dave Eggers

  • It was a very pure voice he had. There was no one like him

    Martin Amis

  • He was the poet of youthful alienation before youth really knew what that was

    Sunday Times

  • Tough-tender... It charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel [in] acidly humorous deadpan satire

    TIME

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About the Author

J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in the New Yorker of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'. The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction: Franny and Zooey, For Esmé - With Love And Squalor and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction. Salinger continued to write throughout his life and left behind a large body of unpublished work.

J. D. Salinger

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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

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Where to start reading J. D. Salinger's books

Most of us have heard of The Catcher in the Rye, but did you know J. D. Salinger only had four books published in his lifetime? For those who loved Catcher and want more, or for those who haven't yet picked up one of his books, find your essential Salinger read below in celebration of his 100th anniversary.

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