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John Irving

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The Cider House Rules Summary

The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. The story follows two main characters, Dr. Wilbur Larch and Homer Wells. Dr. Wilbur Larch is an ether addict, the founder of the St. Cloud's orphanage, and an undercover abortionist. Dr. Wilbur Larch offers his services to women who are giving up their babies for adoption, as well as providing safe abortion services to women who are early enough on in their...

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John Irving Biographies (3)

John Irving

2,027 words, approx. 7 pages

One of a few modern best-selling writers who also has literary stature, John Irving (born 1942) rose to prominence in 1979 with his fourth novel, The World According to Garp. His novels have combined ... Read more

John (Winslow) Irving

6,335 words, approx. 22 pages

John Irving was born in Exeter, Massachusetts, the son of F. N. and Frances Winslow Irving. His father was a teacher of Russian history at Exeter Academy, the prep school which Irving attended during ... Read more

John (Winslow) Irving

8,992 words, approx. 30 pages

John Irving enjoys a rare and prominent place among contemporary American writers not only for having published a string of best-sellers but also for having received accolades from critics in the popu... Read more

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Cider House: Homer Wells

1,092 words, approx. 4 pages

During my senior year of high school, I often had "wet dreams" about leaving my parents house. Fantasizing about freedom and, the ability to come and go as I wished took the place of time designated f... Read more

Choices in The Cider House Rules by John Irving

754 words, approx. 3 pages

In the novel, The Cider House Rules, the author, John Irving contradicts the pro-life belief that a doctor does not have the right to take the life of an unborn child because it is considered to be "p... Read more

Cider House Rules

716 words, approx. 3 pages

In Cider House Rules by John Irving, both the main characters Homer Wells and Dr. Wilbur Larch performed abortions to women back when it was deemed unethical and illegal. Though Homer and Dr. Larch b... Read more

The Cider House Rules: A Rite of Passage, with Dickensian Sympathies

1,096 words, approx. 4 pages

It doesn't take a cryptographer to decipher the meanings in John Irving's sprawling picaresque allegories. But a reader who wants to savor them must be willing to suspend a psychoanalytic view of huma... Read more

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