'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...

'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...

"The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion" ist eine Sammlung von Essays und Schriften des britisch-amerikanischen Autors Christopher Isherwood, in denen er seine Erkundungen und Überzeugungen im Bereich der mystischen...

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...

„Ramakrishna and His Disciples“ von Christopher Isherwood ist eine biografische Darstellung des Lebens und der Lehren von Sri Ramakrishna, einem bedeutenden hinduistischen Mystiker und spirituellen Lehrer des 19. Jahrhunderts in Indien....

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

The Animals von Isherwood, Christopher

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...