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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.59In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a... -
The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The 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,... -
Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader by Christopher Isherwood 9781250254863
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254863Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78WITH 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,... -
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHER Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher... -
A Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Breaking 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... -
Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Booksplease Price: £6.03Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of... -
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42At 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... -
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Isherwood'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... -
The Berlin Novels by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin.MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WITH 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... -
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This 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,... -
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund WilsonAn impatient phone call from the temperamental... -
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his... -
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy by Christopher Isherwood 9780374612337
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374612337Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 9781784878108
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and... -
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood 9780374533809
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533809Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood 9780374535247
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535247Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 9780374533878
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533878Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 9780099548829
Booksplease Price: £8.45In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his... -
Christopher Isherwood Jake Poller 9781836390091
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Christopher Isherwood began writing modernist novels before evolving into a pioneer of autofiction, which mingles fiction and autobiography. His novel Goodbye to Berlin inspired the hit... -
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood 9780811218047
Booksplease Price: £15.46First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49In 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... -
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220248
Booksplease Price: £10.01First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin:... -
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood 9780374533816
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533816Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78WITH 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 Memorial: Portrait of a Family by Christopher Isherwood 9780374533465
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533465Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73After 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; lavish but heavily in... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood 9780374535223
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535223Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux... -
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood 9780374535308
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535308Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood 9781250254870
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254870Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
Isherwood on Writing: The Complete Lectures in California by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Isherwood'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... -
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell 9781250390578
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250390578Author Katherine BucknellFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher... -
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out Katherine Bucknell 9780701186388
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.38'A first-rate biography of the man, the writer and the lover' DAVID HOCKNEY'Bucknell's research is impressive and her judgements astute' GUARDIANAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings... -
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell 9781529932348
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.75An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and letters.Christopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and... -
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family by Christopher Isherwood 9780374180973
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £23.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374180973Author Christopher IsherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220262
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at... -
Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker 9780816679140
Booksplease Price: £25.67How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But... -
Christopher Isherwood: Myth and Anti-Myth by Paul Piazza 9780231041188
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90'Book InformationISBN 9780231041188Author Paul PiazzaFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Queer Times: Christopher Isherwood's Modernity by Jamie M. Carr 9780415762922
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel...