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Christopher Isherwood

Born

in Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire, England

August 26, 1904

Died

January 04, 1986

Website

http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org

Genre

Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Religion

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English-born American Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist who portrayed Berlin in the early 1930s in his best known works, such as Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the basis for the musical Cabaret (1966).

With W.H. Auden he wrote three plays— The Dog Beneath the Skin (1932), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Isherwood tells the story in his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows .

After Isherwood wrote joke answers on his second-year exams, Cambridge University in 1925 asked him to leave. He briefly attended medical school and progressed with his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928) and The Memorial (1932). In 1930, he ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 99,430 ratings · 9,532 reviews · 181 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Single Man 4.05 avg rating — 38,921 ratings — published 1964 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodbye to Berlin 3.93 avg rating — 23,946 ratings — published 1934 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Berlin Stories 4.04 avg rating — 13,027 ratings — published 1945 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Norris Changes Trains 3.75 avg rating — 6,291 ratings — published 1935	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christopher and His Kind 4.03 avg rating — 3,851 ratings — published 1976 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prater Violet 3.77 avg rating — 1,972 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down There On a Visit 3.90 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 1962 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Meeting by the River 3.76 avg rating — 939 ratings — published 1967 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World in the Evening 3.95 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 1954 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties 3.75 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1938 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Berlin Stories (2 books)
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The Berlin Novels (2 books)
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Quotes by Christopher Isherwood (?)

“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
― Christopher Isherwood

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“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

tags: love, memories

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“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

tags: observational

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Polls

May 2015 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you choose for our May New School group read?

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

8 votes, 21.1%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

5 votes, 13.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1915, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1945, The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, 401 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

38 total votes

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