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    Goodbye to Berlin, a captivating novel by Christopher Isherwood, was first published in 1989 by Vintage Publishing. This masterpiece, which falls under the genre of semi-autobiographical novels, paints a vivid picture of Berlin in the early 1930s, just as Hitler was rising to power. Isherwood brilliantly captures the spirit of that time, immersing readers in the city's dark underbelly, its vibrant nightlife, and its people's resilience amidst political and social upheaval. This book is a must-read for any lover of historical fiction or anyone interested in the effects of politics and ideology on ordinary people's lives. As always, Vintage Publishing has done a fantastic job of bringing this important work to the public. This English language edition is a testament to Isherwood's powerful storytelling and his ability to transport readers to a different time and place.

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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, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires - this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and "divinely decadent"Sally Bowles; plump Fraulein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Buste relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.

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    In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation.

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    The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy-in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight; Bachardy was eighteen. The Animals is the testimony in letters to their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986-despite the thirty year age gap, affairs and jealousy (on both sides), the pressures of increasing celebrity, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. The letters reveal the private world of the Animals: Isherwood was "Dobbin," a stubborn old workhorse; Bachardy was the rash, playful "Kitty." Isherwood had a gift for creating a safe and separate domestic milieu, necessary for a gay man in mid-twentieth-century America. He drew Bachardy into his semi-secret realm, nourished Bachardy's talent as a painter, and launched him into the artistic career that was first to threaten and eventually to secure their life together. The letters also tell of public achievements-the critical acclaim for A Single Man, the commercial success of Cabaret-and the bohemian whirl of friendships in Los Angeles, London, and New York with such stars as Truman Capote, Julie Harris, David Hockney, Vanessa Redgrave, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals articulates the devotion, in tenderness and in storms, between two uniquely original spirits.

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    Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Überzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen den Extremen: Nächtliche Trinkgelage, freie Liebe und Hollywoods Glamour-Welt wechseln sich ab mit Meditation und Abstinenz - ein beständiges Ringen von Weltlichkeit und Religiosität, von dem Mein Guru und sein Schüler virtuos erzählt.

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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 by his past and unable tomove forward, we follow him on one very ordinary day. But for George, this isgoing to be a day like no other...A Single Man features in the Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English,where it is described as 'a work of compressed brilliance.' Known to manythrough Tom Ford's film, Christopher Isherwood's masterpiece is now givena wry and compassionate retelling in Simon Reade's new adaptation for thestage.Powerful and sexy, A Single Man is a darkly amusing study of grief, love andloneliness from the celebrated writer of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration forCabaret.

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    My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at MGM, intellectual sparring sessions with Berthold Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center, a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety, and the pious drudgery of translating (in collaboration with the Swami) the Bhagavad-Gita. Seldom has a single man been owed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline; out of the passionate dialectic between these drives, My Guru and His Disciple has been written.

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    Best known for The Berlin Stories-the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret-Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where Joy Resides is the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings.This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet and A Single Man; episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin, Down There on a Visit, and Lions and Shadows; along with excerpts from Isherwood's nonfiction works, Exhumations, Kathleen and Frank, and My Guru and His Disciple.

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    Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through letters and Kathleen's diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change- Queen Victoria's funeral, Blériot's flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland-the period that shaped Isherwood himself. As a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents' lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern.

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    "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." -Diana TrillingOriginally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's 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 an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features vivid portraits of the imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.

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    An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels-and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.

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    Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.

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    Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the 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 of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life.Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.

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    Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu seinNach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander - und mit ihnen zwei Welten, die nicht vereinbar scheinen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Zwiegespräch, das alte Wunden aufbricht und zu großen Fragen führt.Isherwoods letzter Roman ist eine fein gestrickte Auseinandersetzung mit östlicher Mystik und darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem Bruder zu sein.

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    Ein melancholischer Abgesang auf eine verlorene Welt: Kosmopolitisch, libertin, glamourös und dekadent - mit fotografischer Präzision erfasst Christopher Isherwood die letzten Tage der Weimarer Republik in Berlin und zeichnet unvergessliche Porträts der Menschen, die seinen Weg kreuzen und unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: zwei junge Männer, die in fataler Weise voneinander abhängen, eine vermögende jüdische Familie, die das nahende Unglück nicht wahrhaben will, und zahlreiche Mitglieder der Halbwelt, unter ihnen die hinreißend leichtsinnige Sally Bowles, die in der Literatur ihresgleichen sucht. Im Hintergrund der Szenerie marschieren bereits die Nazis auf. Isherwoods Figuren aber verschließen die Augen vor der drohenden Katastrophe und feiern sich um den Verstand.

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    "Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch." New York TimesIm Hintergrund war immer Berlin. Es rief mich jede Nacht, mit der rauen, verführerischen Stimme einer Grammophonplatte. Berlin hatte mich gepackt wie eine Party, nach deren Ende ich nicht nach Hause wollte.Berlin 1928. Ein junger Engländer namens Christopher Isherwood lässt sich durch das wilde Nachtleben treiben. Eine griechische Insel 1932. Hier lässt sich Christopher mit seinem Berliner Freund Waldemar in einer Kolonie von Freigeistern nieder. Von London aus blicken Waldemar und Christopher 1938 mit großer Sorge auf ihre alte Berliner Heimat. 1940 lebt Christopher in Kalifornien und begibt sich mithilfe eines Gurus auf die Suche nach dem tieferen Sinn. In Isherwoods autobiographischem Roman sind es vor allem die Freunde, die seinem Erzähler Halt und Orientierung geben in einer Welt am Abgrund und einem Leben voller Sehnsucht, Exzess und Rastlosigkeit.

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    Berlin am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Der junge Engländer William Bradshaw verbringt seine Tage damit, bourgeoisen Damen Englischstunden zu geben, nachts jedoch umgibt er sich mit Gestalten der Halbwelt. Besonderen Eindruck macht die Begegnung mit Arthur Norris auf ihn, einem Lebemann und Kommunisten - im Deutschland jener Tage eine zunehmend riskante Haltung. Und dann steht der Reichstag in Flammen ...Mit großer Präzision zeichnet Christopher Isherwood das faszinierende Porträt eines Menschen, dem zuletzt alles genommen wird. Und wie schon in Leb wohl, Berlin fängt er auch hier auf einmalige Weise die Stimmung im Deutschland der Vorkriegszeit ein - aus der Perspektive eines scheinbar unbeteiligten Beobachters.

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    Ein Tag im November 1962. In einem Vorort von Los Angeles lebt George. Seit Jim, sein Freund, ums Leben gekommen ist, ist ihm "das amerikanische Utopia" die Hölle auf Erden. Mühsam schleppt er sich durch den Tag: Er gibt einen Kurs an der Uni, besucht seine beste Freundin, fährt durch die Gegend - vor allem aber seziert er in einem unaufhaltsamen Gedankenstrom seine Umwelt. Auch dieser Tag scheint vorüberzugehen wie all die anderen zuvor, bis George nachts am Strand einem Studenten begegnet ... Ein zutiefst berührender Roman, der von bitterer Einsamkeit und der Furcht vor dem Anderssein erzählt, dem Scheitern zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation und einer Gesellschaft, die vor all dem die Augen verschließt. - 2009 kongenial von Tom Ford verfilmt, mit Colin Firth und Julianne Moore.

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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; First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.

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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.

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