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J. D. Salinger (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)

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Little, Brown and Company has published three collections of J. D. Salinger’s short fiction: Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961), and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). An unauthorized paperback collection of his stories in two volumes, apparently published by an unidentified source in Berkeley, California, The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, was issued in 1974. It provoked Salinger’s first public statement in some years, denouncing the collection, which...

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