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John Irving
The iconic coming-of-age novel that made John Irving a household name
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One of the world's greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
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‘The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud’s so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to…
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Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend’s mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents; he…
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Washington Irving
In pre-revolutionary New York, Rip Van Winkle unknowingly falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to find the world irrevocably changed.
Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic…
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Irving John
In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart’s concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation…
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The problem of how to estimate probabilities has interested philosophers, statisticians, actuaries, and mathematicians for a long time. It is currently of interest for automatic recognition, medical diagnosis, and artificial…
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This in-depth treatment of probability theory by a famous British statistician explores Keynesian principles and surveys such topics as Bayesian rationality, corroboration, hypothesis testing, and mathematical tools for induction and…
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Mathias Sajovitz
The aim of the analysis at hand is to refer to existentialist philosophy as a framework, through which it becomes possible to successfully attempt a breakdown of Irving's protagonists' lives…
Irving L. Jensen
This study guide to the Gospel of John is part of a series that has enabled millions to effectively explore and understand God’s eternal message, and which continues to be…
JOHN IRVING,John Irving
It was a gruelling adventure and an epic challenge. On the face of it, all we had to do was get from London to Mongolia. But looking deeper it was…
William Henry Irving
This study guide to the Epistles of John and Jude is part of a series that has enabled millions to effectively explore and understand God’s eternal messge, and which continues…
John Treat Irving,John Irving
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Treat Irving
Title: The attorney, or, The correspondence of John Quod.Author: John Treat IrvingPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection…
Irving H. Bartlett
John C. Calhoun was a rare figure in American history: a lifelong politician who was also a profound political philosopher. Vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he’ll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his…
The nearest thing to an autobiography Irving has written … worth saving and savoring. –Seattle Times Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary…
Twenty years after he had been the examining physician of two victims of a transsexual serial killer, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla leaves Toronto to return to his native Bombay and comes…
In this absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, Jack seeks a sense of identity and father figures while accommodating a host of overbearing and elaborately…
One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years–a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. Since his first novel…
On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children.Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of…
By turns brilliantly comic and emotionally moving, this New York Times #1 bestseller is hailed as a riveting entertainment and certainly one of the funniest novels of the year (…
The lives of the Berry family members are seen through the eyes of John, who reflects upon his often chaotic existence as the son of a hapless dreamer, a brother…
Mozart’s piano sonatas are among the most familiar of his works and stand alongside those of Haydn and Beethoven as staples of the pianist’s repertoire. This study looks at a…
A compelling 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…
‘The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in…
‘The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and…
One of the world’s greatest novelists returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
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Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God’s instrument; he is. This is Irving’s most comic novel, yet Owen, the inspiration for the…
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were…
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and…
‘One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her…
Explains how the author became a writer. This title also contains six stories, including The Pension Grillparzer .
William Morrow modern classics –Cover.
A New York Times -bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity. Billy, the bisexual narrator, tells the tragicomic story of his life as a sexual suspectO amid a theatrical…
As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. What a terrible burden it is to know -…
Chronicles the life of a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of her siblings’ deaths and her parents’ adultery, who only finds love after motherhood and widowhood.
The practices of Dr. Wilbur Larch–obstetrician, orphanage director, ether addict, and abortionist–are hindered, abetted, and continued, in turn, by his favorite orphan, Homer Wells. Reader’s Guide included. Reissue.
