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The Cider House Rules Study Guide

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by John Irving
About 5 pages (1,519 words)
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Literary Precedents

Shortly after The Hotel New Hampshire was published, Irving said that his next novel would be a short one, set in New England during an apple harvest and modeled on Turgenev's "First Love" (circa 1860s; short story), a story of a father and son in love with the same woman. The 560-page The Cider House Rules only partly fits this description.

As is true of The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving's sixth novel does not have a precise literary precedent, but literary references and echoes abound. One of Wilbur Larch's rituals at the St......

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The Cider House Rules from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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