Nine Stories (Salinger)

Short story collection by J. D. Salinger

Nine Stories
First edition
Author	J. D. Salinger
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date	April 6, 1953
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
OCLC	45800520

Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories).

The stories are:

External links

A summary of the Nine Stories

J. D. Salinger

Novel

The Catcher in the Rye

Short story collections

Nine Stories
Franny and Zooey
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Three Early Stories

Short stories

"Blue Melody"
"Both Parties Concerned"
"A Boy in France"
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"
"Down at the Dinghy"
"Elaine"
"For Esmé—with Love and Squalor"
"A Girl I Knew"
"Go See Eddie"
"The Hang of It"
"Hapworth 16, 1924"
"The Heart of a Broken Story"
"I'm Crazy"
"The Inverted Forest"
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos"
"Last Day of the Last Furlough"
"The Laughing Man"
"The Long Debut of Lois Taggett"
"Once a Week Won't Kill You"
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"Personal Notes of an Infantryman"
"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"
"Slight Rebellion off Madison"
"Soft-Boiled Sergeant"
"The Stranger"
"Teddy"
"This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise"
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
"The Varioni Brothers"
"The Young Folks"
"A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All"

Unpublished	"Birthday Boy" "The Boy in the People Shooting Hat" "The Children's Echelon" "I Went to School with Adolf Hitler" "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans" "Lunch for Three" "The Magic Foxhole" "Monologue for a Watery Highball" "Mrs. Hincher" "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" "Paula" "Two Lonely Men"