Christopher Isherwood Forfatter
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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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All the Conspirators (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 whatever means necessary.
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The World in the Evening (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.... Læs mere
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Lions and Shadows (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 in London’s Bohemia.
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My Guru and His Disciple (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 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.
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Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay... Læs mere
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A Single Man (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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The Memorial (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 resentment toward his... Læs mere
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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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