Description: Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

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Reviews: "A brilliant, funny, meaningful novel." --The New Yorker

"Mr. Salinger has an unusual talent, to put it quite inadequately, and The Catcher In the Rye is one of the most unusual novels in a long time." --San Francisco Chronicle

"It is safe to assume that this year will produce no book quite as explosive." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"The prize catch in The Catcher in the Rye may well be novelist Salinger himself. He can understand an adolescent mind without displaying one." --TIME

"Probably the most distinguished first novel, the most truly new novel in style and accent, of the year." -Harper's Magazine