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Goodbye to Berlin
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Large type books |
ISBN | : OCLC:473194822 |
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I Am a Camera
Author | : John Van Druten |
Publsiher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Berlin (Germany) |
ISBN | : 0822205459 |
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Set in Berlin between the two world wars the play explores the tensions leading to the rise of Hitler.
Christopher and His Kind
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780099561071 |
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Writing at a distance of nearly 40 years from the earlier 'Christopher', Isherwood has succeeded in evoking a comically harassed figure in a tragic decade.
Goodbye Berlin
Author | : Margaret M. Dunlop |
Publsiher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780857903488 |
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The 24th of March, 1939, was a poignant day for twelve-year-old Gerald Wiener. He was on a train pulling out of Berlin and he was on his way to the UK to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. He was one of the thousands of unaccompanied children saved by the Kindertransport. Looked after by two sisters in Oxford, his abilities as a scholar became apparent and from an early age he was set on the road to academic achievement. There followed a distinguished career as a research scientist in Edinburgh, where he made a genetic discovery that received international recognition. His research department was a centre of excellence and members of his team went on to make an astonishing breakthrough in genetics, the cloning of Dolly the sheep. During his career Gerald was also in demand to assist agricultural development in China, India, the secretive North Korea and many other countries, and his trips during these years are full of incident and fascinating human and social insights. It was while he was on a postdoctoral fellowship in the USA that he discovered he had a large family in California. He had known nothing of them as his mother and father had parted when he was only two years old. His aunt and stepmother gave him compelling accounts of their escapes from Hitler, via Shanghai, and life under the Japanese during the War. Their stories, and that of Gerald himself, are amazing tales of resilience and triumph over adversity. This book shows how one man's life and achievements mirror the great events of the second half of the twentieth century and the opening years of the new millennium.
The Memorial
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781466853324 |
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With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. 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 for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stand in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.
Auden and Isherwood
Author | : Norman Page |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230598980 |
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Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition.
The Berlin Stories The Last of Mr Norris and Goodbye to Berlin
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1105297368 |
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The Berlin Novels
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781448113385 |
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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.