J.D. Salinger's Short Stories

By: Harold Bloom

Salinger's reputation was secured with the publication in 1951 of his first book and only novel, The Catcher in the Rye. From then on, his famously limited literary output was devoted exclusively to short fiction. The lauded tales of Nine Stories and the longer stories and novellas, including Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, have only extended Salinger's standing as one of the most accomplished fiction writers of his time. Introduced by Harold Bloom, this volume of full-length essays offers a rare critical overview of the shorter prose offerings of this American master. Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604132728
• ISBN13: 9781604132724
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"