Three Early Stories

Three Early Stories is a posthumous publication of American author J. D. Salinger. This collection comprises three stories, "The Young Folks", "Go See Eddie" and "Once a Week Won't Kill You". These stories, as the title says, are three of his earliest stories he ever published, dating back as early as 1940. However, the stories did not get published in a book format until 2014, the publication year of this collection. Both "The Young Folks" and "Once a Week Won't Kill You" were originally published in Story magazine, "The Young Folks" being published in 1940, making it Salinger's first published story, and "Once a Week Won't Kill You" in 1944. "Go See Eddie" was originally published in Kansas Review in the December 1940 issue, making it his second published story.^[1] The collection also hold the original illustrations that were included along with the stories. These illustrations were created by Anna Rose Yoken.^[2]

J. D. Salinger

Novel	The Catcher in the Rye

Short story collections	Nine Stories Franny and Zooey Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction Three Early Stories

Short stories	"Blue Melody" "Both Parties Concerned" "A Boy in France" "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" "Down at the Dinghy" "Elaine" "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" "A Girl I Knew" "Go See Eddie" "The Hang of It" "Hapworth 16, 1924" "The Heart of a Broken Story" "I'm Crazy" "The Inverted Forest" "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" "Last Day of the Last Furlough" "The Laughing Man" "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" "Once a Week Won't Kill You" "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" "The Stranger" "Teddy" "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" "The Varioni Brothers" "The Young Folks" "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans"

Related	Holden Caulfield Salinger (2013) (companion biography) Rebel in the Rye (TBA)

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References

↑ "Publications - Bananafish". salinger.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
↑ "Three Early Stories by J.D. Salinger". The Devault-Graves Agency. Retrieved 2016-04-15.

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