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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 for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?

Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin...

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 wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New York, and London--a world peopled by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, as well as his Broadway writing career, which brought him in touch with John Huston, Merchant and Ivory,...

Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch. New York Times
Im Hintergrund war immer Berlin. Es rief mich jede Nacht, mit der rauen, verführerischen Stimme einer Grammophonplatte. Berlin hatte mich gepackt wie eine Party, nach deren Ende ich nicht nach Hause wollte.
Berlin 1928. Ein junger Engländer namens Christopher Isherwood lässt sich durch das wilde Nachtleben treiben. Eine griechische Insel 1932. Hier lässt sich Christopher mit seinem Berliner Freund Waldemar in einer Kolonie von Freigeistern nieder. Von London aus blicken Waldemar und...

An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation
Originally 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 indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even...

Because Isherwood destroyed his diaries from these years, these letters--published for the first time and edited and introduced by Lisa...

Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, "Christopher Isherwood" works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion changed the literary...

Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein

Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander - und mit ihnen zwei Welten, die nicht vereinbar scheinen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Zwiegespräch, das alte Wunden aufbricht und zu großen Fragen führt.

Isherwoods letzter Roman ist eine fein gestrickte Auseinandersetzung mit östlicher Mystik und darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem Bruder zu sein.

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 parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life.

Their story is told through...