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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
A Single Man (Film Tie-In Cover) by Christopher Isherwood
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienat ...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 Isherwood Diaries: v. 1 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists a ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
$27.99 AUD
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
$22.99 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
$22.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title features with an introduction James Fenton. Subtitled "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. It contains thinly veiled port ...Show more
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Vintage Classics) by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933, "Mr Norris Changes Trains" piquantly ...Show more
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title features with an introduction by Simon Callow. In 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. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his s ...Show more
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A deliberate historical parable "Prater Violet" resembles episodes in "Goodbye to Berlin" and keeps up the same high level of excellence". (Edmund Wilson). An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry ...Show more