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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Fiction
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
A Single Man (Film Tie-In Cover) by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Fiction
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 and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienat ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Fiction
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As th ...Show more
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin (Vintage Deco) by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. '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 ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3: Vol. 3 by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Biography
'A slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes' is how "Virginia Woolf" characterised the young Christopher Isherwood. This final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, records the golden decades of the life-long adventurer, the boy who never wanted to grow up. He greets advancing a ...Show more
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Vintage Classics) by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Classics
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 published in 1933, "Mr Norris Changes Trains" piquantly ...Show more
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by Christopher Isherwood
Category: Biography
Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Holly ...Show more
The Berlin Novels: Mr Norris Changes Trains / Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood
Category: Classics
MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcef ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
Category: Art
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more