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First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, wi
George is heartbroken after the death of his lover. An English professor in suburban California, George must now adjust to a tragic new solitude in the sun. Beneath Georges rigid British restraint, waves of sorrow and fury surge. He doggedly persists with
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First publis
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all' Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret , evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin soc
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHER Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, D
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London
1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression. Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul an
In 1929, Christopher Isherwood leaves England on a one-way ticket to Berlin. He is determined to become a permanent foreigner, to lose himself and discover his sexuality in the boy bars of Berlin. The next ten years will be the most memorable of Isherwo
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYER In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Condor and the Cows
Christopher Isherwoods klassiker fra 1964 om den homoseksuelle George, der underviser på et college i det sydlige Californien og kæmper med sorgen og en eksistentiel krise i kølvandet på kæresten Jims død i en bilulykke. Handlingen i "Ene mand"
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and t
"Farvel til Berlin" er en klassiker af Christopher Isherwood om tiden, hvor Berlin stod midt i mellemkrigstidens skillevej med dekadente festligheder og nationalsocialismens dystre fremmarch. "Farvel til Berlin"(1939) er Christopher Is
Christopher Isherwoods klassiker Mr. Norris skifter tog (1933) om underviseren William Bradshaw, der møder den lyssky Arthur Norris på et tog og indleder et farverigt venskab. Mr. Norris skifter tog ligger emnemæssigt op ad Turbines tidligere udgivne Farv
Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-ag