Can I read The Catcher in the Rye on EtoBox?

The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger; E Michael Mitchell; Lotte Jacobi; Little, Brown and Company is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Catcher in the Rye about?

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish , Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut , The Laughing Man , and For Esme With Love and Squalor --will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the

Who reads The Catcher in the Rye?

Author

J D Salinger; E Michael Mitchell; Lotte Jacobi; Little, Brown and Company

Publisher

Little, Brown; Back Bay Books; Little, Brown and Company

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791036624

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.79 / 5 (2,086,945 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14