'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes', as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, 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 Liberation. In this final volume of his diar[...]
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, Peter and Otto, a gay couple and the 'divinely decadent' Sally Bowles, a young English woman who was so memorably port[...]
Includes novels "Mr Norris Changes Trains" and "Goodbye to Berlin".
A wondrously conceived story spanning twenty-four hours in the life of a middle-aged expatriate British professor of English at a California university, A Single Man was described by Stephen Spender as "an absolutely devastating, unnerving, brillant book." George is a man of intellect and humor, sim[...]
Vedanta Voz de la Libertad de Swami Vivekananda Compilado por Swami Chetanananda Excelente compilacion y maravillosa exposicion de la filosofia Vedanta, con la fortaleza y la calidad explicativa que caracterizan al Swami Vivekananda. Con prologos de los famosos escritores Christopher Isherwood y Hus[...]
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 Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted H[...]
All emotive words with mixed associations which may attract some readers, repel others. A phenomenon is always a fact, an object of experience. This is a story of a phenomenon.[...]
I Farväl till Berlin tecknas bilden av livet i den tyska huvudstaden inför hotet av ett nazistiskt maktövertagande som rycker allt närmare. Berättarjaget möter människor från vitt skilda klasser och förhållanden, som alla försöker överleva på sitt sätt.
Här finns hyres[...]
En enda man av Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood [1904-1986], född i England men amerikansk medborgare 1946, är kanske mest känd för sina Berlinromaner från mellankrigstiden, Mr Norris byter tåg och Farväl till Berlin, som blev pjäsen I am a Camera och den filmatiserade [...]