Excerpts Here is the opening of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” narrated by Holden Caulfield, a tormented prep-school flunk-out who is headed for mental collapse. If you really ...

When it was published in 1951, J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye introduced an iconoclastic image of adolescence that has captured our imagination ever since. Over the years the story ...