Christopher Isherwood
All Books By Christopher Isherwood
A Single Man
- By: Christopher Isherwood
- Length: 4735 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: December 22, 2009
- Language: English
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4.08(31149 ratings)
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
... Read moreChristopher and His Kind
- By: Christopher Isherwood
- Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: January 12, 2010
- Language: English
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4.07(3306 ratings)
Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer#8217;s life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains a classic in gay liberation literature and one of Isherwood#8217;s greatest achievements.
... Read morePrater Violet
- By: Christopher Isherwood
- Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: January 12, 2010
- Language: English
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3.77(1513 ratings)
Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
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