Christopher Isherwood

• Apr-1960
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• Jun-1973
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• Apr-1979
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In this novel by the author of The Berlin Stories, a listless pair of siblings in post-WWI London battle the constraints of society and their mother. It’s the 1920s -- the wake of the Great War -- and Britain is undergoing a transformation. The mid...

• Aug-1981
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My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful co...

• Jun-1985
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Isherwood's final work of fiction -- an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticismAfter a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hind...

• Nov-1985
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Christopher Isherwood was one of the leading gay writers of the twentieth century. He belonged to the circles of W. H. Auden. His early fame came from stories entitled I Am a Camera, which were the source of the Broadway Musical Cabaret as well as th...

• Jun-1987
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Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoi...

• Jul-1987
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• Oct-1988
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A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage sud...

• May-1991
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Isherwood anthology that include two complete novels, PRATER VIOLET and A SINGLE MAN, and excerpts from several other works including THE BERLIN STORIES, which was the inspiration for the popular musical and film CABARET....

• Jan-1993
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• Oct-1995
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As Cambridge undergraduates in the mid-1920s, Christopher Isherwood and his old schoolfriend Edward Upward engaged in a literary attack on the dons and the Â'poshocracy’  -- the fashionable and well-heeled students  -- by creating the bizarre f...

• Aug-1996
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When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an ou...

• Aug-1996
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Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvio...

• Mar-1999
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Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place -- Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the time period of the Berlin Stories), the...

• Mar-1999
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With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bo...

• Sep-2008
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A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin...

• Nov-2012
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• May-2013
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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's...

• Nov-2015
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Jacob Ericson is a quiet, kind and somewhat simple man who works as a ranch hand for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter, Sharon, in California's Mojave Desert in the 1920s. Jacob is a good man, genuine, honorable, but hardly extrao...

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Isherwood's classic story of Berlin in the 1930s - and the inspiration for Cabaret - now in a stand-alone edition. 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 i...

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A pivotal book in Isherwood's career that reveals as much about him as the parents he set out to portrayKathleen and Frank is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents -- their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from t...