The Berlin Novels: "Mr Norris Changes Trains", "Goodbye to Berlin" by Christophe

Description: The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwoods classic Berlin novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwoods experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volumeChristopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwoods 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 forcefully conveys an ironic political parable.GOODBYE TO BERLINThe inspiration for the film Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera, this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin, a city and a world on the very brink of ruin. Notes Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwoods experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volume Back Cover The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of the world of Berlin in the Thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii Observer Mr Norris Changes Trains is the first of Christopher Isherwoods classic Berlin novels. The book charts the encounter and growing friendship between the young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin. Goodbye to Berlin was the inspiration for Cabaret and is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis and creates a haunting evocation of a city, and a world, on the very brink of ruin. See also: A Single Man Author Biography Christopher Isherwood was born at High lane, Cheshire, in 1904. He left Cambridge without graduationg, tried briefly to study medicine and in 1928 published All the Conspirators, followed by a second novel, The Memorial in 1932. From 1928 onwards he lived mostly out of England- four years in Berlin, five in various European countries including Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Denmark. In 1939 he went to California, which became his home for the rest of his life. His Berlin experiences produced two novels, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939).Isherwood worked with the American Friends Service Committee during part of the war. In 1946 he became a US citizen. Following his move to America he wrote five novels - Prater Violet, The World in the Evening, Down There on a Visit, A Single Man and A Meeting by the River; a travel book about South America, The Condor and the Cows; and Ramakrishna and his Disciples, a biography of the great Indian mystic.In 1971 he published Kathleen and Frank, a book based on the correspondence of his parents and his mothers diary, in 1977 Christopher and his Kind, an autobiographical account of the years 1929 to 1939, and in 1980 My Guru and His Disciple, the story of his friendship with the Swami Prabhavananda. He died in 1986. Review Isherwood is one of the great mythmakers of his time. The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of a world Berlin in the Thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii * Observer *Mr Norris Changes Trains is a masterpiece in comic portraiture * Guardian *In Mr Norris Changes Trains, Isherwood sketches with the lightest of touches the last gasp of the decaying demi-monde and the vigorous world of Communists and Nazis, grappling with each other on the edge of the abyss * Sunday Telegraph *Reading Goodbye to Berlin is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows. * Guardian * Promotional Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwoods experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volume Kirkus UK Review I bought my copy of these in Berlin in 1977. The stories have been a play and a film, or at least Goodbye to Berlin has, but a reading of the true works brings an even greater joy. They are quite amazingly immediate, even though Mr Norris Changes Trains was written first, in 1934, and Sally Bowles, as it was originally called before it was filmed as Cabaret, was written later, in 1937. Finally the complete Goodbye to Berlin was published in 1939. They are still perfect, marvellously told, as glittering and startling as the people who inhabit them as the people who inhabit them. Review by the late Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer (Kirkus UK) Review Text Isherwood is one of the great mythmakers of his time. The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of a world Berlin in the Thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii Review Quote Isherwood is one of the great mythmakers of his time. The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of a world Berlin in the Thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii Promotional "Headline" Two acclaimed novels based on Isherwoods experiences in pre-war Berlin, together in one volume Details ISBN0749397020 Author Christopher Isherwood Year 1993 ISBN-10 0749397020 ISBN-13 9780749397029 Format Paperback Publication Date 1993-01-14 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.912 Birth 1904 Death 1986 Media Book Subtitle "Mr Norris Changes Trains", "Goodbye to Berlin" Tag vintageclassics Series Vintage Classics Edition 10000th Publisher Vintage Publishing Pages 512 Imprint Vintage Classics UK Release Date 1993-01-14 AU Release Date 1993-01-14 NZ Release Date 1993-01-14 Alternative 9781448113385 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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