The Berlin novels

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Isherwood Klappentext Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The 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 and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The 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. Zusammenfassung Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The 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 and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Isherwood
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.01.1993
• EAN: 9780749397029
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9702-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Berlin, Historischer Roman, Klassische Belletristik, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical, Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Berlin / Roman, Erzählung, Lyrik, Essay, classic historical fiction encounters friendship pre-war politics goodbye to berlin film; musical cabaret mr norris changes trains weimar republic hitler era nazism nazi years; everday jewish germans short stories fictionalised account entertaining;