A classic writer, a mystery writer—at the peak of his career he announced that he was leaving literature and settled far from worldly temptations in a remote American backwater. Salinger’s books became a turning point in the history of world literature and became desk companions for many generations of young rebels—from beatniks and hippies to today’s radical youth movements. The stories “Franny” and “Zooey,” alongside such an undeniable masterpiece of Salinger as “Catcher in the Rye,” are part of the golden treasury of world literature.