Christopher Isherwood Forfatter
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A Single Man (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim.
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Goodbye to Berlin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: a... Læs mere
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Mr Norris Changes Trains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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;... Læs mere
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Christopher and His Kind (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.... Læs mere
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Prater Violet (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 Isherwood to the film industry.
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The Berlin Novels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter... Læs mere
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Kathleen and Frank (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Down There on a Visit (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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A Meeting by the River (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick.
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The Condor and the Cows (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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