Nine Stories

is perhaps J.D. Salinger’s most enigmatic work, a collection of short stories that provide the first ordered glimpses into his dearly beloved fictional Glass family, and containing one of the most praised short stories in twentieth century American fiction, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”. The collection, published on April 6, 1953, contains all of Salinger’s short stories from

The New Yorker

published between January 1948 – January 1953, and includes two more stories: “Down at the Dinghy”, published in

Harper’s

in April, 1949, and “De-Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period”, published in Britain’s

World Review

in 1951. Kenneth Slawenski notes that in November of 1952, Salinger chose nine of his best pieces to include in the collection and fought with his British…

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Citation: McQuillan, Jennifer . "Nine Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 September 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3311, accessed 29 March 2024.]

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