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Avfärd mot undergången : två Berlin-romaner
Inbunden, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
239 kr
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Klassiska Berlin-romaner samlade i en volym »Två synnerligen läsvärda klassiska verk, välskrivna, mångbottnade - och skrämmande.« Betyg 4 av 5 - Inger Littberger Caisou-Rousseau, BTJ Christopher Isherwoods roman Mr Norris byter tåg från 1935 leder fram till den berömda Farväl till Berlin , 1939; i …
Christopher and His Kind
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
179 kr
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In 1929, Christopher Isherwood leaves England on a one-way ticket to Berlin.He is determined to become a permanent foreigner, to lose himself – and discover his sexuality – in the boy bars of Berlin. The next ten years will be the most memorable of Isherwood’s life. With incredible candour and wit, …
Goodbye to Berlin
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, …
Down There on a Visit
Häftad, 2012
152 kr
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of …
Single Man
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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George is heartbroken after the death of his lover.An English professor in suburban California, George must now adjust to a tragic new solitude in the sun. Beneath George’s rigid British restraint, waves of sorrow and fury surge. He doggedly persists with the routines of his past life, heading out …
Single Man
Häftad, 2022
216 kr
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"I make myself remember. I am afraid of forgetting. I will have to forget if Iwant to go on living."California, 1962. College professor George is grieving the death of his long-termpartner Jim. As a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angelessuburbs, he is an outsider in every way. Haunted …
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Häftad, 2001
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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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 …
Berlin Stories
Häftad, 2008
210 kr
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously …
Farväl till Berlin
E-bok, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
119 kr
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Det desperata nöjeslivet och utlevelsen i 1930-talets Berlin står i fokus i Farväl till Berlin , en roman i sex löst sammanhållna kapitel som utmynnar i Hitlers maktövertagande. Berättaren, som delar namn med Christopher Isherwood, kom dit för pojkarna och friheten men lämnar en stad på randen till …
Berlin Novels
Häftad, 1993
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
190 kr
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Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.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 …
Memorial
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw …
All the Conspirators
Häftad, 2012
136 kr
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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 …
Prater Violet
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher’s job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater …
Goodbye to Berlin
Häftad, 2022
162 kr
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'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 of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from …
World in the Evening
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and …
Goodbye to Berlin
Häftad, 1989
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression.Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead, meeting an English upper-class waif, …
My Guru and His Disciple
Häftad, 2013
165 kr
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 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 spiritual guide …
Single Man
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
227 kr
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When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider. Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern …
How to Know God
The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
Av Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1,500 years ago, and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying commentary interprets the sayings for the modern world, and in doing so gives a full picture of what …
World in the Evening
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and …
Sixties
Diaries 1960–1969
Av Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell
E-bok, 2010
124 kr
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This second volume of Christopher Isherwood''s remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war …
Liberation
Diaries 1970–1983
Av Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell
E-bok, 2012
124 kr
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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 …
Lost Years
A Memoir 1945 - 1951
Av Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell
Häftad, 2001
430 kr
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Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and drinking. Looking back from the 1970s, …
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
Häftad, 2011
456 kr
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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 …
Meeting by the River
Häftad, 2012
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married publisher, newly in love with a boy in Los Angeles, …
Prater Violet
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher’s job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater …
Condor and the Cows
Häftad, 2013
164 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The Condor and the Cows is Isherwood’s unsentimental and wonderfully …
Kathleen and Frank
Häftad, 2013
194 kr
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This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a …
