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PaperbackEngels9781836390091
1-3-2025
A holistic approach to the monumental modernist writer Christopher Isherwood. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780786446872
3-9-2010
A comprehensive and accessible reference to the life and work of Christopher Isherwood. It includes entries on influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, and details the 'roles' Isherwood exemplified during his life - writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099555827
6-1-2011
In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, and more. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561071
1-11-2012
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. Meer
gebondenNederlands200 blz.9789083306018
15-12-2023
De Britse auteur Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) woonde en leefde vanaf 1929 tot aan de machtsovername door Hitler in Berlijn. Deze periode van zijn leven verwerkte hij in twee romans: 'Afscheid van Berlijn' (1939) en 'Meneer Norris neemt de trein' (1935). Meer
paperbackNederlands160 blz.9789493323049
15-4-2024
Hoe ga je verder na de dood van je geliefde? Dit is de centrale vraag in Een man alleen, de roman die zich afspeelt op één dag in 1962 in Los Angeles. Meer
gebondenNederlands200 blz.9789083306025
15-12-2023
'Afscheid van Berlijn', de tweede Berlijnse roman van de Britse schrijver Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), is opgebouwd als een raamvertelling van drie verhalen en drie dagboekfragmenten. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780299167042
23-3-2000
PaperbackEngels9780099575474
7-11-2013
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561088
1-11-2012
Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561095
1-11-2012
Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561224
23-5-2013
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled '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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099283249
5-7-2001
Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561149
1-11-2012
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561194
23-5-2013
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561187
23-5-2013
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099561231
23-5-2013
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099771418
4-7-2001
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. Meer