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Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life.

Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a...

This title considers various issues regarding celibacy and Christianity including the following: how the female body is used to underpin exploitative social systems, how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body, how women have used celibacy to subvert the social order, how radical incarnationalism and queer theory create new challenges to traditional understandings of celibacy, how being erotic and celibate may manifest in social, sexual and political ways. It also explores how being erotically celibate challenges patriarchal society...

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...

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

Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Überzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen den Extremen: Nächtliche Trinkgelage, freie Liebe und Hollywoods Glamour-Welt wechseln sich ab mit Meditation und Abstinenz - ein beständiges...