书名：The Catcher in the Rye 麦田里的守望者
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数790
作者：J. D. Salinger
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2010
语种：英语
ISBN：9780241950425 
商品尺寸：11.1 x 1.5 x 18.1 cm
包装：平装
页数：240（以实物为准）

The Catcher in the Rye《麦田里的守望者》是美国作家杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格的代表作，被认为是二十世纪美国文学的经典作品之一。塞林格将故事的起止局限于16岁的中学生霍尔顿·考尔菲德从离开学校到纽约游荡的三天时间内，并借鉴了意识流天马行空的写作方法，充分探索了一个十几岁少年的内心世界。本书适合英语专业及对心理学、梦境解说类英语书籍感兴趣的读者品读。
推荐理由：
1.《麦田里的守望者》入选《时代》周刊推荐的百部文学经典之一，20世纪百佳英文小说之一；
2.《麦田里的守望者》一经问世即在青少年中引起强烈共鸣，被无数中学和高等院校列为必读的课外读物，其主题也深受社会学者重视；
3.小说自出版以来，深受读者好评及追捧，销量一路狂飙，全球销量已逾六千万册；
4.轻型环保纸印刷，方便随身携带阅读。
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. A controversial novel originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world’s major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel’s protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion. The novel also deals with complex issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, and connection.
The novel was included on Time’s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923 and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at #15 on the BBC’s survey The Big Read. 

16岁的中学生霍尔顿出身于纽约一个中产阶级家庭。父母、老师要他好好读书以便将来出人头地，而学校里一天到晚干的，就是谈女人、酒和性。他看不惯周围的一切，无心学习，因而老是挨罚。第四次被开除时，他没有回家，只身在纽约城游荡了一天两夜……
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it’s relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the “phony” aspects of society, and the “phonies” themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection.

杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格（Jerome David Salinger，1919年~2010年） 美国作家。他于1951年发表的有名小说《麦田里的守望者》被认为是二十世纪美国文学的经典作品之一，引起世界性轰动，尤其受到美国学生的疯狂追捧。他发表的著作还包括《弗兰尼和卓埃》《高举屋梁，木匠们》《西摩：一个介绍》和一部短篇集《九故事》，此外，还有一些作品至今未出版。
J.D. Salinger was born in 1919. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication inThe New Yorker of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”.The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. It was followed by three other books of short stories and novellas, the most recent of which was published in 1963. 

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They’re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They’re nice and all—I’m not saying that—but they’re also touchy as hell. Besides, I’m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I’ll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy. I mean that’s all I told D.B. about, and he’s my brother and all. He’s in Hollywood. That isn’t too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every week end. He’s going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He’s got a lot of dough, now. He didn’t use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was “The Secret Goldfish.” It was about this little kid that wouldn’t let anybody look at his goldfish because he’d bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he’s out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.