John Irving Audio

From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own....

While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident...

Sixteen classic stories of humor: slapstick, sardonic narratives, satire, and wit abound. Authors include Twain, O. Henry, Robert Benchley, and Jean Kerr.

This story comes from The World According to Garp, a novel that established John Irving...

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious 12-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear.

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 movie "Simon Birch," is Irving's most-heartbreaking character.

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

The World According to Garp is a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.