For Esmé – with Love and Squalor
Also known as For Esme-with Love and Squalor
short story by J. D. Salinger
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- inception
- 1944-00-00
- publication date
- 1950-04-18
- first line
- Just recently, by air mail, I received an invitation to a wedding that will take place in England on April 18th. It happens to be a wedding I’d give a lot to be able to get to, and when the invitation first arrived, I thought it might just be possible for me to make the trip abroad, by plane, expenses be hanged.
- last line
- You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f–a–c–u–l–t–i–e–s intact.
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- Salinger