Catcher in the Rye Full Text

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than sixty-five million. It has became a standard book to read for an English class in high school and college. it is in the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The majority of the novel takes place in New York City during post war America. The journey begins just a week before Holden's Christmas break. A young man, Holden Caulfield, is in a mental institution where he is recovering from a recent mental breakdown. The entire novel is a flashback of the events that had led up to his emotional destruction. The novel opens with the narrator, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy from New York City, telling the story of three days in his life. The whole narrative is a coming to terms with the past, since he tells it from a psychiatric institution. To read the full text of Catcher in the Rye visit http://www.nowtorrents.com/torrents/catcher-in-the-rye-online-read.html.