John Irving: 91 books

Die Leser von >Garp< werden sich erinnern: >Die Pension Grillparzer< ist die erste Erzählung aus der Feder des 19-jährigen Garp - mit ihr erobert er Helen, seine spätere Frau. Eine Geschichte voller Verrücktheit und Trauer, mit wiederkehrenden Träumen, verzweifelten Akrobaten, Bären...

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe,...

A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. "His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over...

An American classic first published in 1985 by William Morrow and adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, *The Cider House Rules *is among John Irving's most beloved novels. Set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch—saint and obstetrician,...

For teachers We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter. This...

De wereld volgens Garp is een zeldzaam komische, originele maar ook schokkende roman die John Irving in één klap beroemd maakte. Sinds de verschijning in 1978 hebben miljoenen lezers genoten van de excentrieke, non-conformistische Jenny, haar zoon T.S. Garp en de fanatici, onschuldige kinderen, transseksuelen, hoeren, worstelaars en de vele andere figuren die de wereld van Garp bevolken.

Juan Diego is een veertienjarige jongen die in Mexico in armoede opgroeit. Zijn dertienjarige zus Lupe kan de gedachten van sommige mensen lezen, en denkt te weten wat de toekomst brengt. Over het verleden heeft ze meestal gelijk: ze kent de ergste dingen die je zijn overkomen zonder dat je er iets...

"On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from...

Now available in eBook for the first time in America—the New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp. “The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second...

Hotel New Hampshire vertelt het tumultueuze verhaal van de familie Berry. Vader en moeder zijn eigenaar van Hotel New Hampshire. Frank is de oudste zoon en zijn leven wordt beheerst door zijn homoseksualiteit. Franny is de oudste dochter. John is het derde kind en de verteller van het verhaal. Zijn...

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont,...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian...

This book has an active table of contents for readers to easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. The Theory of Interest – Irving Fisher 2. Real Issues Concerning Interest – John Bates Clark 3. The Origin of Interest – John Bates Clark 4. Fisher's...

The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter of the following titles: 1. THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY – John Keynes 2. THE DEBT-DEFLATION THEORY OF GREAT DEPRESSIONS – Irving Fisher John Keyes made essential contributions...