Author: Christopher Isherwood
Year: 1945
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Classic, Short Stories, War/Military
Culture: Germany
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ISBNs:
9780811200707
9780811218047
0811200701
081121804X |
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First published in the 1930s,
contains two astonishing related novels,
and
, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power.
is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in
and Liza Minnelli in
; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
This book is part of the "The Berlin Novels" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Goodbye to Berlin"
First published in 1939
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