The Berlin Stories is a book consisting of two short novels by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1945. The Berlin Stories was chosen as one of the Time 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Проща́й, Берли́н — частично автобиографический роман, написанный Кристофером Ишервудом в 1939 году, о его проживании в Берлине времён Веймарской республики в начале 1930-х годов и до прихода к власти нацистов. «Прощай, Берлин» входит в сборник романов «Берлинские истории» вместе с романом «Труды и дни мистера …
Mr Norris Changes Trains is a 1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The Berlin Stories. Inspiration for the novel was drawn from Isherwood's experiences as an expatriate living in Berlin during the early …
«Кристофер и ему подобные» — автобиографическое произведение британского писателя Кристофера Ишервуда, написанное им в 1976 году. Мемуары охватывают период времени с 1929 по 1939 год, когда Кристофер жил в Берлине. События этого отрезка жизни писателя также легли в основу его романа «Прощай …
Down There on a Visit is the 1962 novel from English author Christopher Isherwood. Through his political advocacy and the literary success of his friends, Auden and Spender, Christopher Isherwood became something of a literary rock star, immersing himself in sexual experimentation, alcohol, and raucous company across …
Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around 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 …
Christopher Isherwood writes another quasi-fictional account of love, loss, and regret in 'The World in the Evening'. As in many Isherwood novels, the main character is caught in a contest between his personal egoism and the needs of friends and lovers. This novel has also been praised for its narrator's definitions …
The Memorial is a 1932 English novel by author Christopher Isherwood. The novel tells the story of an English family's disintegration in the days following World War I. Isherwood's second published novel, this is the first of his works for which he adapted his own life experiences into his fiction.