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Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and caf s; marvelously grotesque, wit ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
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
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
This title deals with a new introduction by Philip Hensher. "Radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic". (Stephen Spender). Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1988 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as "Christopher Is ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin (Vintage Deco) by Christopher Isherwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social his ...Show more
Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful publisher and a married man with a skeleton in his cupboard, decides to v ...Show more
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
This title features with an introduction by Simon Callow. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his s ...Show more
The Berlin Novels: Mr Norris Changes Trains / Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Reading Level: very good
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 World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and weaknesses. ...Show more
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