'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George OrwellChristopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story obliquely evokes the gathering storm during the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a...

Berlin in den Dreißigern: Europaweit zieht die Metropole Menschen an, die der erstarrten Bürgerlichkeit entkommen wollen. Der Engländer Isherwood genießt die sexuelle Freiheit der Stadt. Hier kann er seiner Vorliebe für junge Männer...

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...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled '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...

Isherwood's classic memoir of his life in 1930s Berlin, a seminal book of gay liberation. Recently adapted into a BBCTV drama starring Matt Smith. *Also appeared in May Buyer's Notes* von Isherwood, Christopher

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn 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. von...

"From the No.1 bestseller. Gabby looked at the woman she had hated nearly all her life. Then she sat down on the ladder-backed chair, put her face into her bloodied hands and cried. To the outside world, Cynthia Tailor is a woman to...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, 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...

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and...

Zum allerersten Mal auf Deutsch - Christopher Isherwoods Debütroman. Philipp Lindsay steht sich selbst im Weg. Der junge Mann aus gutem Londoner Hause fühlt sich zu Höherem berufen und scheitert doch ständig an seinen eigenen Ansprüchen...

Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund WilsonAn impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher...