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(1953)
And Other Stories
A collection of stories by J D Salinger

So begins “For Esme – with Love and Squalor,” one of the most beloved entries in Nine Stories. The narrator goes on to explain that the wedding is one he would very much like to attend, but his mother-in-law is looking forward to seeing him and his wife around that time, so he is obliged to skip it. First published in the American magazine The New Yorker on April 8 th 1950, the short story ‘For Esme—With Love and Squalor’ was anthologized two years later in J.D. Salinger’s collection Nine Stories. The story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed character who upon receiving an invitation to a wedding that he wishes to attend. An American soldier stationed in Devon in April, 1944, meets a precocious 13 year old girl, named Esme, and her brother, Charles, 5. They have a brief, entrancing conversation.

The original American text of 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'; 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut'; 'The Laughing Man'; 'Down at the Dinghy'; 'Just Before the War with the Eskimos'; 'For Esme - With Love and Squalor'; 'Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes'; 'De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period' and 'Teddy'.
Genre: Literary Fiction

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Title: For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-241-98592-7 / 978-0-241-98592-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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Title: For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-241-91146-X / 978-0-241-91146-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Title: For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-241-95045-7 / 978-0-241-95045-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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Title: For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-14-104925-1 / 978-0-14-104925-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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Title: For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-14-023753-4 / 978-0-14-023753-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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Title: For Esme-with Love And Squalor: A Perfect Day For Bananafish;Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut;the Laughing Man;Down at the Dinghy;Just Before the War with ... my Eyes;De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period;Teddy
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-14-009205-6 / 978-0-14-009205-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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Title: For Esme - with love and squalor (Signet modern classics)
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-450-03026-1 / 978-0-450-03026-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: New English Library
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Title: For Esme with Love and Squalor
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-450-02166-1 / 978-0-450-02166-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: New English Library
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Title: For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
ISBN: 0-450-00526-7 / 978-0-450-00526-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: New English Library Ltd
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Title: For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories
Author(s): J D Salinger
Publisher: Penguin
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