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 * //__media type="youtube" key="zm-d4aP2Yy0" width="425" height="350"Famous Novels J.D. Sallinger had written​__//**



====//**Of Human Bondage**// (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel //Beauty from Ashes//, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's //Ethics.//==== W. Somerset Maugham's passionate semi-autobiographical novel //Of Human Bondage// was published in 1915 and remains his most famous book. As a young man Maugham trained to be a doctor and his experiences as an intern in the London slums led him to write //Liza of Lambeth// (1897). The novel was a success and Maugham quickly traded the surgeon's knife for the writer's pen. Maugham wrote plays, novels, criticism and essays, and soon became one of Britain's most popular authors; in 1908 he had four plays running simultaneously on London stages. In later years Maugham became known as a master of the short story. He travelled extensively and based many of his tales in exotic locales, particularly the South Seas. "Rain," the tale of a straitlaced missionary who becomes obsessed with reforming a prostitute, is probably his best-known short story. His other books include the novels //The Magician// (1908) and //Cakes and Ale// (1930) and the essay collection //A Writer's Notebook// (1949).

Maugham worked in the British intelligence department during World War I, and based his 1928 novel //Ashenden// on his experiences. The book is considered a forerunner to many later spy novels of the 20th century, including the James Bond stories of Ian Fleming... Maugham's 1919 novel //The Moon and Sixpence// was based loosely on the life of painter Paul Gauguin... //The Razor's Edge// was made into a 1984 feature film starring Bill Murray. Isak Dinesen, pseud. of Baroness Karen Blixen, 1885-1962, Danish author, who wrote primarily in English. In 1914 she married Baron Blixen and went to live in British East Africa, on a coffee plantation. She was divorced in 1921 and took over the management of the plantation where she lived until 1931, when falling coffee prices forced her to return to Denmark. From her experiences she wrote her autobiographical //Out of Africa// (1937), which became a successful film. Dinesen is best known for her tales, many of which have eerie, supernatural elements. Her works include //Seven Gothic Tales// (1934), //Winter's Tales// (1943), //Last Tales// (1957), and //Anecdotes of Destiny// (1958). Writing despite severe illness, Dinesen finished the African sketches //Shadows on the Grass// in 1960.

//**Out of Africa** is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a// //nom de plume////used by the Danish author Baroness// //Karen von Blixen-Finecke////. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in// //Kenya////, then// //British East Africa////. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then translated it into Danish.//

=**// __EMILY DICKINSON__ // :In the novel "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden speaks of his brother Allie who died of cancer when Holden was younger. He thinks very highley of Allie and speaks very highley of him too. Allie used to play outfield when he played baseball and to keep himself entertained he used to write Emily Dickinson poems in his glove so he could read them inbetween plays. **=

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**"The precocious Allie who copies Emily Dickinson poems on his baseball glove"**

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 * "My favorite author is my brother D.B., and my next favorite is Ring Lardner. My brother gave me a book by Ring Lardner for my birthday, just before I went to Pencey. It had these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that's always speeding" - Holden ​ **

**__//RING LARDNER://__ ** To watch more videos about Ring Lardner go to [] Gatsby was another book J.D. Salinger had written. In this book too Salinger describes his life in this book and also The Catcher in the Rye. In both of these books Salinger** describes his faylts and incorporates them in both of these books in eachcharacter, it is said that holden was very anti social and had no frends when he was growing up. Also, Salinger was the middle child when he was growing up he felt very un loved by his parents and this accounted for his anti social and nerotic behvior when he was a kid in real life and in both of these books. What i think people may not realize about J.D. is thath he was a very interesting kid when he grew up no friends knowbody to talk to.
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