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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate portrait of the battle between old and young as he ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Fiction
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 candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As th ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind A Memoir by Christopher Isherwood
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitel ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin (Vintage Deco) by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. '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 ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'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 diaries, ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3: Vol. 3 by Christopher Isherwood
79.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes' is how "Virginia Woolf" characterised the young Christopher Isherwood. This final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, records the golden decades of the life-long adventurer, the boy who never wanted to grow up. He greets advancing a ...Show more
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 Holly ...Show more
The Berlin Novels: Mr Norris Changes Trains / Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcef ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
72.95 AUD
Category: Art
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more
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