For Esme—With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories

Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger, published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor".

The stories are:

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"

"Just Before the War with the Eskimos"

"The Laughing Man"

"Down at the Dinghy"

"For Esmé – with Love and Squalor"

"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"

"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"

"Teddy"