Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951
 Hiding from Garbo and Other Old Tricks: This memoir raises the bar for sexual candor way above what we are used to, and that is a good thing. Isherwood, in commenting and elaborating on his sketchy daily calendar notes for these years, takes a fiercely [... more]
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Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960
Amazon.com Review: Christopher Isherwood is noted for his novels and autobiographical writings, especially The Berlin Stories (the basis for the film, Cabaret) and Christopher and His Kind. But Isherwood put at least as much of his genius in his Diaries [... more]
$20.00
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Christopher & His Kind: A Biography
Isherwood discovers Berlin and boys: Christopher Isherwood makes it clear in his introduction that this book will be candid about his homosexuality. It begins with his move to Berlin and covers the time up to his move to America. There are fascinating [... more]
$13.00
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Bhagavad-Gita:: The Song of God
timeless wisdom for today: I haven't read any other translation of the Gita, so I don't have any opinion about this translation vis a vis any other translation. However, I can say that this translation is simple to read and understand, and that the [... more]
$6.95
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All the Conspirators
Author: Christopher Isherwood Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780811207256 ISBN: 0811207250 Number Of Pages: 255 Publication Date: 1979-05 [... more]
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The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye ...
Amazon.com Review: Christopher Isherwood was a diverse writer whose accomplishments included The Mortmere Stories (Edward Upward Series), A Single Man and a translation of The Song of God (Bhagavad Gita). But many critics hailed The Berlin Stories, the [... more]
$15.95
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Prater Violet
a little novella about nostalgia, film, and Hitler: I reread this lovely novel earlier this year. In a way, it's better than Berlin Stories because of its conciseness and the humor is more sophisticated. What had been funny looms like familiar smells [... more]
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The World in the Evening
Giving life & self a chance: "The World in the Evening" is the story of Stephen Monk in the years before and during World War II. After his second marriage implodes, he retreats to his former home, a Quaker town in Pennsylvania, where he is [... more]
$17.95
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A Meeting by the River
A reminder of why authors rarely attempt epistolary novels: After he moved in 1939 to Los Angeles, where he met Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood translated many Hindu texts, wrote a biography of Ramakrishna (a nineteenth-century Indian mystic), [... more]
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My Guru and His Disciple
An English writer in America meets an Indian swami: Surely one of Isherwoods finest works. This memoir tells of his time in Hollywood during World War II and of his meeting and subsiquent association with Swami Prabhavananada. Isherwood approaches the [... more]
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The Memorial
Not all that memorable....: This is admittedly only the second Isherwood novel I have read...and the first half sets up what I thought was going to be a really good finish...but I was a bit disappointed. Regarding the various relationships of several [... more]
$17.95
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Christopher and His Kind
Isherwood discovers Berlin and boys: Christopher Isherwood makes it clear in his introduction that this book will be candid about his homosexuality. It begins with his move to Berlin and covers the time up to his move to America. There are fascinating [... more]
$18.95
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