The Very Thorough Bibliography


A Selective Bibliography - A Work in Progress

by Gary Norris

The Novels:

Setting Free The Bears - Random House 1968 1st Edition
The Water-Method Man - Random House 1972 1st Edition#
The 158-Pound Marriage - Random House 1974 1st Edition*
The World According To Garp - E. F. Dutton 1978 1st  Edition
The Hotel New Hampshire - E. F. Dutton 1981 1st Trade Edition
The Cider House Rules - William Morrow 1985 1st Trade Edition
A Prayer For Owen Meany - William Morrow 1989 1st Trade Ed.
A Son Of The Circus - Random House 1994 1st Trade Edition
A Widow For One Year - Random House 1998 1st Trade Edition

# 6,906 copies of first printing of The Water-Method Man
* 2,560 copies of first printing of 158-Pound Marriage
 

Autobiography:

The Imaginary Girlfriend - A Memoir. Knopf Canada 1996. First Canadian Edition

Memoir/Non-Fiction:

 My Movie Business - Random House 1999. First US Edition

Screenplay

 The Cider House Rules - Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion 1999.

Collections:

3 by Irving - Random House 1980 [his first three novels] 1st Edition

Trying To Save Piggy Sneed - Knopf Canada 1993 [includes: Trying
To Save Piggy Sneed, Interior Space, Almost in Iowa, Weary
Kingdom, Brennbar's Rant, Other People's Dreams, The Pension
 Grillparzer, and essay The King of the Novel.  1st Edition [signed]

 John Irving: Three Complete Novels, Wings Bestsellers, 1995

 Trying To Save Piggy Sneed - Arcade Pub., New York 1996. First U.S.  Edition. [includes: Trying To Save Piggy Sneed, The Imaginary Girlfriend,  My Dinner at The White House, Interior Space, Brennbar’s Rant, The  Pension Grillparzer, Other People’s Dreams, Weary Kingdom, Almost In  Iowa, King of the Novel, Introduction to the Christmas Carol, Gunther  Grass: King of the Toy Merchants
 

Other Special Editions:

The World According To Garp - E.F. Dutton 1978  [paperback/advanced reading copy]
The World According To Garp -  Australian/English 1st Edition.  [English: London, 1978, Gollancz/Victor]
The World According To Garp - E.F. Dutton reprint
The World According To Garp - Taiwan piracy (1978 plates) Hong  Kong 1982 in red cloth
The Hotel New Hampshire - Dutton, 1981. Limited Edition of 550  copies in red crushed goatskin w/ marbled end papers, and  gilt decorations, and an off-white cloth slipcase
The Cider House Rules - advanced reading copy from William
 Morrow 1985 bound galleys
The Cider House Rules - William Morrow limited edition
The Cider House Rules - Franklin Library Limited Edition 1985  (signed) ISBN# 0-688-05762-4
The Cider House Rules - Modern Library Edition 1999 - hardcover
A Prayer For Owen Meany - Franklin Library Limited Edition 1989  (signed)
A Prayer For Owen Meany - William Morrow Limited Edition  1989 (signed) ISBN# 0-688-08760-4
The 158-Pound Marriage - Bloomsbury Classics 1993 [first British  hardcover edition] ISBN#0-7475-1590-5
A Son Of The Circus - Franklin Library Limited Edition 1994  (signed)
A Son Of The Circus - Bloomsbury, Clays Ltd 1994 - First Edition
The Imaginary Girlfriend - A Memoir - Bloomsbury Edition 1996
 The World According To Garp - Modern Library Edition 1998 [with new    introduction]
 Widow For One Year - Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Preceded the U.S.    edition. Limited to 1000 copies w/ numbered book plate, no dust    jacket, tan cloth binding w/ black endpapers and edges
 A Widow For One Year - Advanced Reading Edition, Random House    1998 [paperback]
 A Widow For One Year - Unicycle Press, Inc. 1998 [numbered     1200 copies/signed, with special introduction]

Yet more editions I have read about, keeping in mind that there are, "bound galleys", "uncorrected proofs", "advanced reading" copies, etc., of most of JI’s books:

 The World According To Garp - Dutton, 1978. Uncorrected proof copy    bound in mustard colored wraps [signed]
 Hotel New Hampshire - Dutton, 1981. "Proof" made from unedited,    uncorrected manuscript. Handwritten notes have been photocopied    throughout. [this copy was selling for $800 in October 1999]
 Cider House Rules - Johnathan Cape, London, 1985. Uncorrected proof in    red wrappers
 Imaginary Girlfriend - Bloomsbury, London, 1996. Uncorrected proof    with dust jacket
 A Prayer For Owen Meany - Lester and Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1989.    Identical to Morrow edition and issued at same time
 Trying To Save Piggy Sneed - Arcade, 1995. Advanced excerpts (3) of the    first American edition. Contents page listed inclusion of Irving’s    "Vonnegut" piece which did not appear in the final volume.
 A Son Of The Circus - Random House, 1994. Advanced reading copy.
 A Son Of The Circus - Knopf, Canada, 1994. Uncorrected proof of first    Canadian edition

Misc.  Paperback editions:
Setting Free The Bears - First Ballantine Books printing January 1970. 01812 095
The World According To Garp -
Pocketbook editions 1979:
dark red cover with Garp's Father T. S. Garp in flight jacket
bright red cover with Garp's Father in flight jacket
green cover with Jennie Field and Garp
dark blue cover with Garp and Helen [Canadian copy]
silver cover with Garp and hookers
light blue cover with Garp, Duncan and Walt
movie tie-in with Robin Williams as Garp on fold-out cover with the rest of the cast on the inside of fold-out (1981)
World According To Garp - Corgi Book [England] 1994
Cider House Rules - 1985 William Morrow large format paperback
 [Paperback Book Club edition]
A Prayer For Owen Meany - 1990 William Morrow large format  paperback [Paperback Book Club edition]
Son of the Circus - 1995 Random House large format paperback  [Paperback Book Club edition]
 Trying To Save Piggy Sneed - First U.S. paperback edition. Includes     additional photographs. 1997
 The World According To Garp - Ballantine trade paperback #345-41801-   8-1295 [1997]
 The Cider House Rules - Ballantine trade paperback movie tie-in edition    #345-38765-1 [1999] w/ Tobey Maguire as Homer Wells on cover

Introductions to books:
Streetwise: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark.  Aperture Books 1985
Leah, New Hampshire - The Collected Stories of Thomas Williams.
 William Morrow and Co., Inc.  New York, 1992 pp. 7-13
Mark Ellen Mark - Indian Circus - Forward by John Irving,  Chronicle Books, San Francisco ã 1993
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol and Other Stories - With An  Introduction by John Irving, Modern Library hardcover 1995

Books which include Irving poems, short stories, and non-fiction:
Year of Dog (Putney, Vt.) - includes poem "For Fitch Retired"  (1972) [not in my collection, nor in anybody's it seems...]
The Pushcart Prize II:  Best of the Small Presses. (1977) Includes
 "Pension Grillparzer"
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All Rolling  Stone Press/Summit Books 1980. Includes "The Old Friends"
Prize Stories - The O'Henry Awards Vol. 61. (1981) Doubleday
 ISBN 0 385 15977 3. Includes "Interior Space" hardcover
Last Night's Stranger:  One Night Stands and Other Staples of  Modern Life ed. by Pat Rotter. A&W Pub., New York  (1982). Includes "Other People's Dreams" p 57 hardcover
Toni Morrison - Critical Perspectives: Past and Present.  Amistad
 Literary Series, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A.  Appiah. Amistad Press (I 993) Includes "Tar Baby" from the  New York Times Book review originally published March 29,  1981. ISBN 1 56743 012 0 paperback
Voicelust: Eight Comtemporary Fiction Writers on Style - Edited  by Allen Wier and Don Hendrie, Jr. University of Nebraska  Press, 1985, pp 87-92. Includes: "The Narrative Voice" by  John Irving
The Writers Handbook - 1992 Edition. Contains "Getting Started"  on p. 65. 1992
Conversations on Writing Fiction: Interviews with 13 Distinguished  Teachers of Fiction Writing in America edited by Alexander  Neubauer, Harper Collins, 1994, "John Irving" on pp 141-152
Playboy Stories - The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction edited  with an introduction by Alice K. Turner. Playboy Press 1995.  Includes "Brennbar's Rant". ISBN 0 525 93735 8 hardcover
Unleashed - Poems by Writer’s Dogs, Edited by Amy Hempel and  Jim Shepard, p. 36 "Untitled" by John Irving. Crown Pub.,  Inc. New York, 1995, 1st Edition hardcover
Die blaurote Luftmatratze [The Blue/Red Air Mattress] - 15  Schriftsteller lassen sich treiben, edited by Detlev Reinert.   Ullstein Taschenbuchverlag, 1998, Germany. #3-548-24205-7.
 Includes: "Die blaurote Luftmatratze" by John Irving.

Books on Tape, CD, Misc. Readings:
Setting Free The Bears read by Dan Lazar.  Eight 1 1/2 hour  cassettes from Books on Tape (#1358) New York
The Water-Method Man read by Dan Lazar.  Eight 1 1/2 hour  cassettes from Books on Tape (#1359) New York
The World According to Garp:  Boston Mercy and The Pension
 Grillparzer read by John Irving.  Two cassettes from  Newman Communications (1985)
The World According To Garp [15 cassettes/library edition]
The World According To Garp [$64] - Books On Tape, Inc.,  December 1984. ISBN#999829777X
The World According To Garp [$56] - Books on Tape, Inc., June  1987. ISBN#9998297737
Cider House Rules [16 cassettes]
A Prayer For Owen Meany "Boxed Cassette Reading by John Irving  to Book Trade and Media" March 1989 [Publishers Weekly  ad/not in my collection]
A Son of the Circus Brilliance Corporation’s Bookcassette, The  Complete Book in Audio [9 cassettes/26 hours of listening]
Great American Humor: 16 Unabridged Stories Audio Partners,  Inc. 1997 [includes a reissue of the above title "The World  According to Garp: Boston Mercy and the Pension  Grillparzer" as read by John Irving from Newman  Communications]
A Widow For One Year - Random House Audiobooks, May 1998,  #0-375-40290-X [14 cassettes/24 ¼ hours] Read by George  Guidall
The World According To Garp - Random House Audiobooks, May  1998,  #0-375-400384-1 [12 cassettes/approx. 20 hours] Read by  Michael Prichard. Includes an introduction written and read  by John Irving
Witwe fur ein Jahr [A Widow For One Year] - Kein & Aber Audio  0699 [CD] Libri:4887891, ISBN 3-906547-84-1, 1999. Live- Aufnahme der english-deutschen Lesung im Berliner  Ensemble. Laufzeit ca. 63 Minuten. Read by John Irving and  Holger Teschke on April 17, 1999.
 

Literary Biographies:
John Irving by Gabriel Miller.  Frederick Ungar Pub.  Co. 1982
John Irving by Carol Harter and James Thompson.  Ohio  University - Twayne Publishers/GK Hall, Boston 1986 ISBN  0 8057 7462 $19.95
Understanding John Irving by Edward C. Reilly. University of  South Carolina Press 1992 paperback
John Irving: A Critical Companion by Josie Campbell. Greenwood  Publishing Group, 1998 ISBN#0313302227

Videos:
 Writer’s Workshop - John Irving. PBS video WRWO-107-WF94 $170.00  (30 min.)
 

Articles and Short stories written by John Irving:

Essay - "Women in a Changing World" from symposium in Japan,
 October 23-25, 1985.  Asahi News Service, Japan [online]*
Antaeus - Winter 1976 with "Pension Grillparzer"
Antaeus - Autumm 1977, Antaeus 27, with "Neglected Books of the  Twentieth Century"
Boston Review - Spring/Summer 1968 with "Weary Kingdom" p 8
The College Hill - "Notes About Garp" by John Irving, 1996-1997,  from www. campuspress.com
Esquire - March 1973 with "Lost in New York" p II 6
Esquire - April 1973 with "Gorgeous Dan" p 106
Esquire - November 1973 with "Almost in Iowa" p 144
Esquire - September 1975 with "Teachers: These Are Your  Students" p68
Esquire - June 1977 with "Dog in the Alley, Child in the Sky" p 109
Esquire - March 27, 1979 "Life After Graduation"
Fiction Vol. 6 No. 2, 1980 with "Interior Space"
The Financial Post - May 28, 1994 with "Writer’s Tribute To His  Wrestling Coach"
The Financial Post - December 9 , 1995 with "Robertson Davies: A  Remembrance"
Gallery - [1975-1976?] Garp
The Globe and Mail - The Universal Donor [1997]
The Guardian - March 16, 1996 with "Wrestling With Words"
The Independent - October 15, 1992 with "Obituary: Froelich  Rainey"
Los Angeles Times - September 2, 1990 with "Vonnegut In Prison  and Awaiting Trial; Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut"
Maclean’s - June 25, 1990 with "From Under Two Hats" p 84
Maclean’s - December 18, 1995 with ‘"The Magic Touch Of A  Reversed Storyteller"
New Republic - September 22, 1979 with "Kurt Vonnegut and His
 Critics" p 41
New Republic - March 1, 1993 with "Vigilante" p 4
New Yorker - January 30, 1989 with "The Foul Ball" p 28
New Yorker - August 1, 1994 with "The Courier" pp 60-69
New Yorker - December 11, 1995 with "Personal History - Slipped  Away" p 70 "The author remembers his first love"
New Yorker - December 25, 1995 with "Fox Here..." p 47
New York Times [Book Review] - March 18, 1979, with a Dan  Gable/Iowa University wrestling team article, Section 5, p 6
New York Times [Book Review] - June 10, 1979 with a review of  "The Living End" by Stanley Elkin, Section 7, p 7
New York Times Book Review - July 15, 1979 with "Works in
 Progress" Sec I p 14
New York Times [Book Review] - August 12, 1979 with a review of  "Memories of My Father", Section 7, p 1
New York Times Book Review - November 25, 1979 with "In New
 Defense of Sentimentality"
New York Times Book Review - May 25,1980 with "TABA
 Winners"
New York Times Book Review - March 29, 1981 with "Morrison’s  Black Fable" [review of "Tar Baby" by Toni Morrison]
New York Times Book Review - August 22, 1982, with "Trying to
 Save Piggy Sneed"
New York Times - October 3, 1982, with "Desire Ambition and  Father" [book review of "The Good Son" by Craig Nova]
New York Times Book Review - September 21, 1986, with "Risking  All For Gold and Grizzlies" [book review of "Seven Rivers  West" by Edward Hoagland]
New York Times Book Review - December 2, 1990 with "Have  Yourself A Gorey Little Christmas; Schloss Wittwer" p 16
New York Times Book Review - March 29, 1992 with
 "Pornography and the New Puritans" p 1
"New York Times Book Review - June 7, 1992, from Letters To  The Editor, in response to letters in response to  "Pornography and the New Puritans"
New York Times Book Review - April 6, 1997, with "Is There Any  There Here?" [book review of "Within The Context of No  Context" by George W.S. Trow]
New York Times Book Review - November 16, 1997, with  "Dealing For Dollars" [book review of "The Dark Lady From  Belorusse - A Memoir" by Jerone Charyn]
Penthouse - [1975-6] Garp
Playboy - December 1974 with Brennbar's Rant" p 137
Playboy - June 1976 with "Jenny and the Ball Turret Gunner" p 88
Playboy - Febuary 1977 with "Garp's Night Out" p 115
Ploughshares - April, 1977 with "Vigilance"
Publisher's Weekly - January 24, 1991 with "Getting Started" p 2
Redbook - November, 1965 with "Winter Branch" p 56
Rolling Stone - February 17, 1983 with "How To Spell" (Ad for the
 International Paper Company) pp 22-23 (photo) [also in R.S.
 4/14/83 pp 34-35]
Saturday Night - February, 1993 with "Mr.  Irving Goes to
 Washington" (cover story/photos) p 34
Saturday Review - March 1982 with "Gunther Grass" King of the  Toy Merchants
Suddeutsche Zeitung - [German] - July 27, 1994. Features a short  story by John Irving written in German, "Die blaurote  Luftmatratze".
Swank - [1975-76?] Garp
Vogue - April, 1979 with "Best Seller: What Does It Really Mean"
 p 154
The Writer - July, 1991 with "Getting Started" p 9
Writers Yearbook ‘97 [Writers Digest] Profile and Interview

Articles about and interviews with John Irving:

Asheville Citizen-Times (N.C.) - June 7, 1998, coverage of reading in  Vermont by Sally Pollak, Entertainment p D2 (photo)
Book of the Month Club News - Summer, 1985, "John Irving"  interview by Corby Kummer, p 5
Book of the Month Club News - November, 1981 interview
Book of the Month Club News - April 1989, "A Talk With John  Irving" by Phyllis Robinson, p 3
Boston Herald - June 23, 1998 interview by Stephanie Schorow,  Arts & Life p 33
Cable Guide - August 1991 - Interview, "The Tube According to  John Irving" p 28
Chicago Tribune Book World - May 11, 1980 Garp Sec. 7 p 2
Chicago Tribune Magazine - April 28, 1985 interview p 26
Contemporary Literature 23 - Winter, 1982, "An Interview with  John Irving by Larry McCaffrey, pp 1-18
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Vol. 13 pp 292-297, Vol. 23 pp
 244-254, Vol. 38 pp 250-255 (photos)
Daily Telegraph - April 18, 1998, interview by Michael Shelden,  Books, p. 1
Entertainment Weekly - May 22, 1998, interview by Benjamin  Svetkey, p 32 (photo)
Fiction International 14 - 1982, "John Irving: An Interview" by  Joyce Renwick, pp 5-18
The Independent (London) - April 26, 1998, interview by Simmy  Richman, Features, page 28
Interview - October, 1981. "An Interview With John Irving" by  Laura De Coppet, pp 42-44
Interview with James Kindall 8/30/94 [internet]
Los Angeles Times - June 25, 1998 interview by David Ulin, Life &  Style, Part E, p 1 (photo)
Los Angeles Times - June 28, 1998 coverage of stage version of Cider  House Rules by Jan Breslauer, Calendar p 3
Macleans - June 11, 1979 interview
Mademoiselle - February, 1983 interview
Mother Jones - May/June 1997, interview by Suzanne Herel,  internet: www.motherjones.com
Ms - September, 1982 interview
New England Review - Summer 1979,  "An Interview With John  Irving" by Michael Priestly, pp 489-504
Newsday - August 30, 1994, interview by James Kindall, internet:  www.newsday.com
Newsday (New York) - June 7, 1998, interview by Mark Rozzo,  Currents & Books p B11 (photo)
New York Magazine - August 17, 1981, "John Irving’s World After  Garp" interview by Richard West, pp 29-32
New York Times - November 29, 1981, "All About Writing,  According To Irving", interview by James Feron, Sec. 2 p 4
New York Times - April 25, 1989, "John Irving: 19th Century  Novelist For These Times" Interview by Richard Bernstein,  pp C13, C17
New York Times - April 28, 1998, profile by Mel Gussow, Section  E, p 1, The Arts/Cultural Desk (photo)
New York Times - July 12, 1998 interviews and coverage of the  stage version of Cider House Rules with comments from JI,  by Todd Purdum, Section 2, p 7
New York Times Book Review - April 23, 1978, "Talk With John  Irving" interview by Thomas Williams, p 6
New York Times Book Review - May 26,1985 Garp
New York Times Book Review - March 12, 1989. "Casting Doubts  on Atheism" interview by Michael Anderson, p 30
Orange County Register - July 5, 1998 interviews [not JI] and  coverage of  the stage version of Cider House Rules by Jeff  Rubio, Show p F8
Ottawa Citizen - May 17, 1998, coverage of a Toronto reading by  James MacGowan, Citizen’s Weekly p D14
Paris Review 28 - 1986, "The Art of Fiction XCIII: John Irving", by  Ron Hansen, pp 74-103
People - December 25, 1978 interview
Publisher's Weekly - April 24, 1978 interview
Publisher's Weekly - August 23, 1991 Writers p 5
Quill & Quire - Interview by Stephen Smith [1993] internet: www.
 e-commerce.com
Research Studies - 51 No. I June, 1983 Garp
Rolling Stone - December 13, 1979 interview
Sacramento Bee (California) - May 14, 1998, short interview by  Jennifer Bojorquez, Scene p F2
San Diego Union-Tribune - April 6, 1989, interview by Gayle  Kidder, Lifestyle p C1
Salon - March 3, 1997, interview by Joan Smith, internet:  salonmagazine.com
Saturday Review 8 - No. 9 September, 1981, interview
Stanford Daily - February 13, 1997, interview by Rich Herzfelder,  internet: http://daily.stanford.org
Time - August 31, 1981 Hotel (cover story)
Time - June 3, 1985 Cider (photo) p 81
Time - April 3, 1989 Owen (photo) p 80
Toronto Sun - July 12, 1998 interview by Jean Sonmor, Comment p  C10 (photos)
USA Today - May 23, 1985 Cider
USA Today - April 18, 1989 interview
U.S. News and World Report - October 26, 1981 with "A  Conversation with John Irving: Humans  Are A Violent  Species - We Always Have Been" by Alvin  Sanoff, pp 70-71
Vanity Fair - March, 1983 (Ad/photo)
Washington Post - August 25, 1981 Garp/Hotel
Washington Post - May 2, 1985 interview Style Sec. Fl
Washington Times - June 23, 1998, coverage of Vermont school  funding issues with comments by JI, by Richard Grenier,  Commentary p A23

Television Appearances:

Larry King [?]

Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher - February 21, 1997
 Guests included: John Irving, Jackie Collins, Vondie Curtis-Hall,  and David Cross
 Word for Word - Transcripts at: www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu
 

Foreign Translations:

Danish translations -

Danish pubisher: Lindhardt & Ringhof

John Irving - Verden ifolge Garp Pa dansk ved David Gress-Wright, Gyldendal 1989

Finnish translations -

GARPIN MAAILMA price 27,75 euros (FIM 165,-), hardcover
KAIKKI ISANI HOTELLIT - 1981
VALISARJAN AVIOLIITTO - 1984
OMAN ELAMANSA SANKARI - 1985
YSTÄVÄNI OWEN MEANY 8,24 euros (FIM 49,-), paperback
VESIMIES 8,41 euros (FIM 50,-), paperback
SIRKUKSEN POIKA  19,34 euros (FIM 115,-), hardcover
TUULESTA TEMMATTU TYTTOYSTAVA - 1996
LESKI VUODEN VERRAN price 29,43 euros (FIM 175,-), hardcover

Finnish publisher: Tammi Publishers
Contact:
The Academic Bookstore
P.O. Box 128
FIN-00101 Helsinki
Finland

French translations -

French publisher: Editions du Seuil

Liberte pour les ours! © 1980 Editions du Seull, mat 1991 pour la traduction francalse.  Presentation par Patrick Grainville.  Titre original: Setting Free The Bears ISBN 2 02 019729 4 (ISBN 2 02 012756 3, 1 st publication).
Tradult de L'american par Josee Kamoun.  Roman texte integral.  R587 [paperback]

Hotel New Hampshire - Quebec, Mohndruck Gutersloh, 1983. Hardcover
Hotel New Hampshire - Quebec, Edition du Club Quebec Loisirs, 1982.

La petite amie imaginaire
 

German translations - (see Swiss)

Garp Und Wie Er Die Welt Sah, Deutsch von Jurgen Abel, 1979 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg [hardcover] ISBN 3 498 09201 4
Garp Und Wie Er Die Welt Sah, Deutsch von Jurgen Abel, Roman/Rowohlt 5042/1690 (paperback)

Other German titles:
La*t die Baren Los - [Setting Free The Bears] - published by Diogenes Verlag
Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker - [The Water-Method Man] - published by Diogenes  Verlag
Eine Mittelgewichts - Ehe - [158-Pound Marrige] - published by Diogenes Verlag
Das Hotel New Hampshire - published by Diogenes Verlag
Cider House Rules - "Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag" [God’s Work and the Devil’s  Contribution] - published by Diogenes Verlag
Die imaginare Freundin - published by Diogenes Verlag

Italian translations -

Italian publisher: Rizzoli Libri

Liberta' per gli Orsi - Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini, Proprieta' letteraria riservata ã 1968 by John Irving.  First published in Great Britain 1992 RCS Rizzoll Libri S.p.A., Milano ISBN 88-17-67451-6.  Titolo originate dell'opera: Setting Free The Bears.  Prima edizione-. gennaio 1992 [hardcover]
La Cura Dell'Acqua Pura - "La Storia Tragicamente Comica Di Un Uomo Senza Qualita".  Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini.  Titolo originate The Water-Method Man.  ISBN 88-452-1678-0 ã 1972 by John Irving ã 1989 Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bomplani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. Via Mecenate 91- Milano.  I edizione "I Grandi Tascabill" gennalo 1991. 289058/158 [paperback]
Doppia Coppia - "II Gioco Degil Amorl Incrociati".  Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini.  Titolo originate The 158-Pound Marrige. ã 1973, 1974 by John Irving @ 1986 Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bomplant, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. Via Mecenate 91- Milano.  I edizione "I Grandi Tascabili" maggio 1988. 173328/92 [paperback]
11 Mondo Secondo Ga!p - "Quando La Vita E'Approssimata Per Eccesso".  Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini.  Titolo originate The World According To Garp ã 1976, 1977, 1978 by John Irving ã 1979 Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. Via Mecenate 91- Milano.  IV edizione "I Grande Tascabill" settembre 1987. 428854/36 [paperback]
Hotel New Hampshire - "II Piu' Importante Scrittore Americano Della Nuova Generazione".  Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini.  Titolo originate The Hotel New Hampshire.  ISBN 88-452-1079-0 ã 1981 by Garp Enterprises, Ltd. ã 1982 Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bomplani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. Via Mecenate 91 - Milano.  VI edizione "I Grandi Tascabili" marzo 1989. 422915/32 [paperback]
Le Reizole Della Casa Del Sidro - "La Morale Convenzionale Non E' Vera Moralita' (Charlotte Bronte).  Traduzione di Pier Francesco Paolini.  Titolo originate The Cider House Rules.  ISBN 88-452-0231-3 ã 1985 by Garp Enterprises, Ltd. @ 1985 Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas S.p.A. Via Mecenate 91 - Milano.  V edizione "I Grandi Tascabill" febbraio 1990. 137000/65 [paperback]

Japanese translations -
Setting Free The Bears - Japanese paperback rights arranged with Literistic,
Ltd. through Japan UNI Agency, Inc.  Japanese paperback edition ã 1989
Chuokoron-Sha, Inc.  ISBN 4 12 201695 6
(C I 197 P52OEO)
The 158-Pound Marrige - Japanese translation rights arranged with Sterling
Lord Literistic,, Inc.  New York, through Japan LTNI Agency, Inc.  Tokyo.
Copyright ã 1987 Kazue Salto, ISBN 4 10 227305 0
(CO197 P560E)
The World According To Garp - Japanese translation rights arranged with
Harold Matson Company, Inc., New York through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc.,
Tokyo. ã 1983 Masaki Tutui. ã 1978 by John Irving.  Japanese copyright ã
1983 by Sanrio Company Ltd.  Two hard-bound volumes ISBN 4-387-83016-6.  Vol. 1 494402, Vol. 2 494411 (CO397 P1648E)

Norwegian translations -
Hotell New Hampshire,  Overstatt av Tormod Haugen.  Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo.  En Magnumbok fra Gyldendal.  ISBN 82 05 17625 6

Norwegian publisher: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

Gyldendal norsk forlag titles:
8205267596 Hotell New Hampshire    h  1999    98.00
8205256616 Garps bok     h  1999   98.00
8205256667 Siderhusreglene : roman   ib  1998   135.00
8205256608 En bønn for Owen Meany   h  1999   98.00
8205254745 Enke for et år    ib  1998   369.00
8205262551 Siderhusreglene : roman   h  1999   98.00
8205262624 Enke for et år    ib  1999   135.00
8205265259 Enke for et år    h  1999   98.00
8205265151 Sirkusbarn : roman   h  1999   98.00

Available from:
http://www.lothes.no
Lothes Bokhandel AS
Haraldsgata 134
5500 Haugesund
NORWAY
Tlf. 52-721333
Fax 52-721335

Spanish translations -
El Mundo Segun Garp, Traduccion de Iris Menendez, S.A.  Iradier, 24, bajos - D8017 Barcelona (fine paperback)

Publisher in Spain: Tusquets Editores:
"El Hotel New Hampshire", Tusquets, 1995.
"Doble Pareja", Anagrama, 1985.
"La epopeya del bebedor de agua", Tusquets, 1989.
"Un hijo del circo", Circulo de lectores, 1995.
"Principes de maine,..." Tusquets, 1996.
"Libertad para los osos", Tusquets, 1992.
"El mundo segun Garp", Tusquets and several other publishers.
"Oracion por Owen", Tusquets, 1989.

Polish translations -
Swiat Wedlug Garpa, Przelozyla Zofia Uhrynowska-Hanasz, Czytelnik, Warszawa 1994 (fine paperback)

Russian translations -

Swedish translations -

Swedish publisher: Gedins Forlag

Swiss Publications -
Setting Free The Bears - Laßt die Bären frei!
The Water-Method Man - Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker!
The 158-Pound Marriage - Eine Mittelgewichtsehe
The World According To Garp - Garp und wie er die Welt sah
The Hotel New Hampshire - Das Hotel New Hampshire
The Cider House Rules - Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag
A Prayer For Owen Meany - Owen Meany
A Son Of The Circus - Zirkuskind
A Widow For One Year - Witwe für ein Jahr

All Titles (except Garp) are published by Diogenes, Zürich, Switzerland

Related material:

Carton, Evan - The Politics of Selfhood: Bob Slocum, T.S. Garp and auto-American-biography, Novel, Vol. 20, Fall 1986, pp. 41-61

Cosgrove, William - The World According To Garp as Fabulation, South Carolina review, Volume 19, No. 2, 1987, pp. 52-58

Fowles/Irving/Barthes - Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme by Randolph  Runyon. Published for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press  [c 1981] xiii, 121 p., ill. ISBN: 0-8142-0335-3 cloth $35.00

McKay, Kim - Double discourses in John Irving’s The World According to Garp. Twentieth Century Literature v. 38, 1992, pp. 457-475

Wymard - A New Version, Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 27, 1981, pp. 284-286

Special Thanks to:
Allan Reeder, Ben Forest, Marcia Shindler, Ines Gutierrez, Kevin Corcoran, Steinar Haugberg, Juan Carlos, Friedrich Burbach

© 1999 Gary Norris