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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
Bhagavad Gita: the Song of God by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood (translated by)
14.95 AUD
Category: Spirituality
The timeless epic of Hindu faith contains a simple, vivid message of daily inspiration for millions throughout the world. This powerful, beautiful scripture is translated into clear, meaningful English which can be read as a living contemporary message that touches the most urgent personal and social pr ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind A Memoir by Christopher Isherwood
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
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 indefinitel ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin (Vintage Deco) by Christopher Isherwood
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Deco
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression ...Show more
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social his ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3: Vol. 3 by Christopher Isherwood
79.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes' is how "Virginia Woolf" characterised the young Christopher Isherwood. This final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, records the golden decades of the life-long adventurer, the boy who never wanted to grow up. He greets advancing a ...Show more
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title features with an introduction James Fenton. Subtitled "An education in the twenties", this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled port ...Show more
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title features with an introduction by Simon Callow. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his s ...Show more
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by Christopher Isherwood
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Holly ...Show more
The Berlin Novels: Mr Norris Changes Trains / Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcef ...Show more