Background
Isherwood, Christopher was born on August 26, 1904 in High Lane, Cheshire, England. Son of Francis Edward and Kathleen (Machell-Smith) Isherwood. came to the United States, 1939. Naturalized, 1946.
(In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to b...)
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. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution.
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( An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent wr...)
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."
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(Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten ye...)
Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains a classic in gay liberation literature and one of Isherwood’s greatest achievements.
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"My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood’s spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood’s own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline. . . . In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader." Edmund White, New York Times Book Review "This book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness." Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) is the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial, Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.
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( A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and se...)
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.
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(Fiction The author's favorite of his own novels, now ba...)
Fiction The author's favorite of his own novels, now back in print! When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself. "A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist." Anthony Burgess "An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." Stephen Spender "Just as his Prater Violet is the best novel I know about the movies, Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." Edmund White
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( Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. Ca...)
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.
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( Isherwood's final work of fiction―an epistolary novel t...)
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.
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(Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, write...)
Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful, long-married publisher, newly in love with a boy in Los Angeles, decides to visit Oliver to persuade him not renounce the world. First published in 1967, A Meeting by the River exposes the complex rivalries of sibling relationships and dramatises the conflict between sexuality and spirituality.
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(This is a biography of Kathleen and Frank Isherwood, writ...)
This is a biography of Kathleen and Frank Isherwood, written by their son who wrote "Goodbye to Berlin", "A Single Man" and "Christopher and His Kind". Based on their letters and Kathleen's diary it is the story of their times, and is full of public events and period atmosphere - the relief of Ladysmith, the funeral of Queen Victoria, Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, Sara Bernhardt's Hamlet, the beginning of the troubles in Ireland, hunt balls, changing fashions, servant problems, suffragettes, army life in barracks and in battle.
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(This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - th...)
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 history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world which shaped Isherwood and which he rejected.
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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 spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. Late-night drinking sessions, free love, and the glamour of writing for the Hollywood studios alternate with meditation, abstinence and the study of religious texts in a compelling tug of war between worldliness and holiness.
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(At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his...)
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. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and weaknesses. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself?
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Isherwood, Christopher was born on August 26, 1904 in High Lane, Cheshire, England. Son of Francis Edward and Kathleen (Machell-Smith) Isherwood. came to the United States, 1939. Naturalized, 1946.
Student, Repton School, 1919-1922; student, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge U., 1924-1925; medical student, University London, 1927-1928.
Secretary to, Music Society String Quartet, London, 1926-1927; private teacher English, Berlin, 1928-1933; travelled in, Europe and China., 1934-1938; guest professor modern England literature, Los Angeles State College and University of California-Santa Barbara, 1959-1960; Regent's professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965; Regent's professor, University of California-Riverside, 1966.
( An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent wr...)
(This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - th...)
(Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten ye...)
( A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and se...)
(Fiction The author's favorite of his own novels, now ba...)
( "My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and hones...)
(One of the few classic works of South American travel, no...)
(In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to b...)
( Isherwood's final work of fiction―an epistolary novel t...)
(This is a biography of Kathleen and Frank Isherwood, writ...)
(This is a biography of one of India's greatest saints, wr...)
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(An account of the author's South American travels among t...)
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(Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, write...)
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Worked with American Friends Service Committee on refugee relief project, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1941-1942. Member of national advisory board of trustees Institute Study of Human Resources. Member American Civil Liberties Union, Wider Quaker Fellowship, Screenwriters Guild, National Institute Arts and Letters, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.