Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwood's genius into the tale of one baudy, brilliant woman. 1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, repression and excess, threatened by a rising tide of tyranny.... Zobraziť viac
Novela patří patrně k autorovým (1904 - 1986) nejzajímavějším, silně autobiograficky laděným textům patřícím ke klasickým anglickým "short stories"... Zobraziť viac
CCV: "angry and affecting" --Independent on Sunday Guardian This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of... Zobraziť viac
Novela patří patrně k autorovým (1904 - 1986) nejzajímavějším, silně autobiograficky laděným textům patřícím ke klasickým anglickým "short stories"... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me... Zobraziť viac
An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna... Zobraziť viac
CCV: 'classy' --The Independent, February 2010 Guardian This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Isherwood's short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after ... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, he greets advancing age with poignant humour and an unquenchable appetite for the new. Isherwood journeyed and ... Zobraziť viac
Subtitled '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 ... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his ... Zobraziť viac
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 ... Zobraziť viac
In 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. The Condor ... Zobraziť viac
