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The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions),Don Bachardy

A love story in letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy –

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Katherine Bucknell

An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood's diaries and letters

An engrossing new biography of the man…

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Katherine Bucknell

"A stunningly intimate portrait of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity"--

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

Tells the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California, who is left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim.

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Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood

A semi autobiographical account of Isherwood’s time in 1930s Berlin that shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress…

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The Berlin Novels

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood’s classic ‘Berlin’ novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William…

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Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood

First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of…

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Christopher Isherwood

Francis King

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Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia

David Garrett Izzo

A comprehensive and accessible reference to the life and work of Christopher Isherwood. It includes entries on influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, and details the…

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Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

The interviews in this volume stretch over a period of forty years. They address a wide range of topics, including the importance of diary-keeping to Isherwood’s life and work; the…

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Christopher and His Kind

Christopher Isherwood

An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation.

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Christopher and His Kind

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

Christopher Isherwood

In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood’s search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter…

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Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood’s Letters to His Mother

Lisa Colletta

Opening a window into the fascinating and, in many ways, mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood’s life, this book collects more than one hundred letters the young author wrote to his…

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Kathleen and Frank

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Lost Years

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and abandoned his habit…

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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All the Conspirators

Christopher Isherwood

The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by…

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The Condor and the Cows

Christopher Isherwood

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYER In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of…

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Lions and Shadows

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Liberation Diaries, Volume Three: 1970-1983

Christopher Isherwood

Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death.

Beginning in the period of his life when he wroteKathleen and…

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My Guru and His Disciple

Christopher Isherwood

WITH A NEW 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…

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The World in the Evening

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Down There on a Visit

Christopher Isherwood

Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as ‘Christopher Isherwood’. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood’s…

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The Memorial

Christopher Isherwood

The First World War is over. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and…

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Prater Violet

Christopher Isherwood

Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence’ - Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich…

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My Guru and His Disciple

Christopher Isherwood

WITH A NEW 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…

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Mr. Norris Changes Trains

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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A Meeting by the River

Christopher Isherwood

Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick.

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood’s short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor…

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Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America

Jaime Harker

Jaime Harker shows that Christopher Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold…

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Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood’s Modernity

Jamie M. Carr

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood’s Modernity

Jamie M. Carr

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Christopher Isherwood: Myth and Anti-Myth

Paul Piazza

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Christopher and His Kind

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Christopher and His Kind

Christopher Isherwood

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…

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Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I

It is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s…

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Mr Norris Changes Trains

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels

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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

Originally published: Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1947.

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Prater Violet

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry.

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World in the Evening

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

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…

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Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

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

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All the Conspirators

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values

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Down There on a Visit

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

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…

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)

A gay man copes with the death of his partner in Isherwood’s classic novel, now a film written and directed by Tom Ford.

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Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader

Christopher Isherwood

Best known for The Berlin Stories–the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret–Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where…

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The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

Christopher Isherwood,Don Bachardy

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…

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