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Isherwood

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 9781509859405
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood written by Peter Parker and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Isherwood's Fiction

Author : Lisa M. Schwerdt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349199869
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood's Fiction written by Lisa M. Schwerdt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

A Single Man

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466853344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Single Man written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.

All the Conspirators

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222616
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book All the Conspirators written by Christopher Isherwood and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation—clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

Down There on a Visit

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099561085
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Down There on a Visit written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.

Jacob's Hands

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 125010257X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Jacob's Hands written by Aldous Huxley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Ericson is a quiet, kind and somewhat simple man who works as a ranch hand for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter, Sharon, in California's Mojave Desert in the 1920s. Jacob is a good man, genuine, honorable, but hardly extraordinary–until he miraculously heals a dying calf with his hands. However, while he is content to cure the town's animals, it isn't long before he is persuaded to use his gift in other ways. When Sharon, whom he adores, begs him to heal her leg, he cannot deny her. His acquiescence causes them both to be exploited. Sharon runs away to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of stardom. Jacob follows her, hopeful that they will meet again. And they do–as miserable performers in a seedy stage show. While they plan their escape from the dreary stage life, Jacob is asked to heal a self–absorbed young millionaire. And with his assent, Jacob's plans and all of his dreams begin to crumble. Written in tight, vivid, and seamlessly crafter prose, this previously unpublished tale by two of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century shows the dangers a magical gift holds for even the noblest of characters.

Christopher and His Kind

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466853298
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Christopher and His Kind written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally 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.

Goodbye to Berlin

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1939 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prater Violet

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 146685328X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Prater Violet written by Christopher Isherwood and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. When it first appeared in 1945, Prater Violet caused a fury of critical speculation and acclaim. Edmund Wilson called it "a deliberate historical parable," and Diana Trilling's Nation review said, "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time... It is a book written in the author's own person, yet utterly without ego; it is a novel about movie writers which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist; it is a book without a political moral, but a profound moral-political statement; it is gay, witty, sophisticated, but wholly responsible.

A Meeting by the River

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711054
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Meeting by the River written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isherwood's final work of fiction—an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticism After a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick, a successful publisher with a wife and children in London and a male lover in California, has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices. First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River delicately depicts the complexity of sibling relationships—the resentment and competitiveness as well as the love and respect. Ultimately, the brothers' exposure to each other's differences deepens their awareness of themselves. In A Meeting by the River, Christopher Isherwood dramatizes the conflict between sexuality and spirituality that inspired his late writings. “The best prose writer in English.” Gore Vidal

The Memorial

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466853328
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Memorial written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. 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 for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stand in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.

The Sixties, 1960-1969

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099565222
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Sixties, 1960-1969 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time - Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham and many others. They are most revealing about Isherwood himself - his fiction, his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period such as the anxieties of the Cold War, the moon landing and the Vietnam war. In The SixtiesIsherwood turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.

Diaries: 1939-1960

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries: 1939-1960 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske forfatters (1904-1986) dagbøger

Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480009
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia written by David Garrett Izzo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, places, novels, stories, essays and plays, introduces Isherwood to those who know little of him, expands the knowledge of the literate general reader, and refreshes teachers of literature with Isherwood details. Entries on Isherwood's most influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, are significant. Included are all of the monumental "roles" Isherwood exemplified during his life--writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta.

The World in the Evening

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711062
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The World in the Evening written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair with a younger man during a visit to the Canary Islands. The world traveler comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland. When first published in 1953, The World in the Evening was notable for its clear-eyed depiction of European and American mores, sexuality, and religion. Today, readers herald Christopher Isherwood's frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early appreciation of low and high camp.

Letters between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature

Author : R. Zeikowitz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614140
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Letters between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature written by R. Zeikowitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works.

Isherwood on Writing

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968144
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood on Writing written by Christopher Isherwood and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form. This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.