Christopher And His Kind

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185301181
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ramakrishna and His Disciples written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: This is the story of a phenomenon. I will begin by calling him simply that, rather than 'holy man', 'mystic', or 'saint', all emotive words with mixed associations which may attract some readers, repel others. A phenomenon is always a fact, an object of experience. That is how I shall try to approach Ramakrishna... I only ask you to approach Ramakrishna with the same open-minded curiosity you might feel for any highly unusual human being. Christopher Isherwood unfolds a fantastic story with a calm finesse...

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099561077
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christopher and His Kind written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at a distance of nearly 40 years from the earlier 'Christopher', Isherwood has succeeded in evoking a comically harassed figure in a tragic decade.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466853344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Single Man written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533806
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down There on a Visit written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150408232X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Conspirators written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel by the author of The Berlin Stories, a listless pair of siblings in post-WWI London battle the constraints of society and their mother. It’s the 1920s—the wake of the Great War—and Britain is undergoing a transformation. The middle class is struggling, and the younger generation, feeling constrained by the values that once fueled the empire, is yearning to break free . . . A new war is brewing in the slums of Kensington, London. The members of one family are plotting daily against each other and themselves. Philip Lindsay has quit his office job and dreams of becoming an artist. His sister ,Joan, is in love. To get what they want, they must first get away from their overbearing mother . . . Originally published in 1928, All the Conspirators was Christopher Isherwood’s first novel. He later went on to write such works as The Berlin Stories, A Single Man, and Goodbye to Berlin.

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598986
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auden and Isherwood written by Norman Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition.

Author : Jamie M. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113552064X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Times written by Jamie M. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 (1976).

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061856800
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Years written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712115
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy—in their own words The English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight; Bachardy was eighteen. The Animals is the testimony in letters to their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986—despite the thirty year age gap, affairs and jealousy (on both sides), the pressures of increasing celebrity, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. The letters reveal the private world of the Animals: Isherwood was "Dobbin," a stubborn old workhorse; Bachardy was the rash, playful "Kitty." Isherwood had a gift for creating a safe and separate domestic milieu, necessary for a gay man in midtwentieth-century America. He drew Bachardy into his semi-secret realm, nourished Bachardy's talent as a painter, and launched him into the artistic career that was first to threaten and eventually to secure their life together. The letters also tell of public achievements—the critical acclaim for A Single Man, the commercial success of Cabaret—and the bohemian whirl of friendships in Los Angeles, London, and New York with such stars as Truman Capote, Julie Harris, David Hockney, Vanessa Redgrave, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals articulates the devotion, in tenderness and in storms, between two uniquely original spirits.