Nine Stories（ISBN=9780316769501）

　　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."

　　A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.

　　美国最重要的当代作家之一、《麦田里的守望者》作者杰罗姆?大卫?塞林格，于2010年1月27日在新罕布什尔州的家中去世，终年91岁。
　　塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》一书被认为是二十世纪美国文学的经典作品之一。 《麦田里的守望者》由美国小布朗出版于1951年，是塞林格唯一一部长篇小说。 小说主人公霍尔顿是出身于富裕中产阶级的十六岁少年，在第四次被开除出学校之后，不敢贸然回家，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，酗酒……他看到了资本主义社会的种种丑恶，接触了各式各样的人物，其中大部分是"假模假式的"伪君子。该书塑造了美国当代文学中最早的反英雄形象之一, 一经问世便风靡全球，在青少年中引起强烈共鸣.
　　《麦田里的守望者》已经被译作多国文字，销量突破了6,500万本。它也跻身到20世纪最畅销和最有影响小说的行列．该书1983年由译林出版社引进中国.　
　　《麦田里的守望者》获得成功后，塞林格又创作了短篇小说集《九故事》（1953）、《弗兰妮与祖伊》（1961）和《抬高房梁，木匠们；西摩：小传》（1963）。《九故事》被不少文学评论家认为比《麦田里的守望者》更出色，其中主角都是一些不合时宜的男女青年，但却未能获得同样的大众欢迎度。

A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
The Laughing Man
Down at the Dinghy
For Esm6--with Love and Squalor
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
Teddy