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For Esmé – with Love and Squalor is a short story by American writer J.D. Salinger, first published in The New Yorker in 1950 and later included in Salinger’s acclaimed short story collection, Nine Stories (1953). The narrative is set …
Catch-22 is a satirical, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller, set during World War II, that tells the story of Captain John Yossarian, a bombardier in the United States Army Air Forces. The novel explores themes of bureaucracy, the absurdity of …
Three Comrades is a novel written by German author Erich Maria Remarque and published in 1936. Set in Germany during the years following World War I, the novel follows the lives of three close friends: Robert Lohkamp, a wounded veteran; …