Auteur: Christopher Isherwood

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Gregor Runge, geboren 1981, studierte am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig und anschließend an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München. Zu den von ihm übersetzten Autoren zählen F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M. Forster, Angharad Price und Eoin Mc Namee.




48 Ebooks par Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood: Lauter gute Absichten
Zum allerersten Mal auf Deutsch – Christopher Isherwoods Debütroman. Philipp Lindsay steht sich selbst im Weg. Der junge Mann aus gutem Londoner Hause fühlt sich zu Höherem berufen und scheitert doch …
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Christopher Isherwood: Das Denkmal
England in den 1920er Jahren: Der Erste Weltkrieg ist vorbei, Eric Vernon ist kein Junge mehr, aber auch noch kein Mann. Die Welt um ihn herum verwirrt ihn zutiefst, klare Vorbilder gibt es nicht meh …
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Christopher Isherwood: Die Welt am Abend
Ein rauschendes Fest im Hollywood der vierziger Jahre: Inmitten von Glanz und Glamour bestätigt sich Stephen Monks Verdacht, dass seine Frau Jane ihn betrügt – er erwischt sie in flagranti. Kurzerhan …
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Christopher Isherwood: Leb wohl, Berlin
Ein melancholischer Abgesang auf eine verlorene Welt: Kosmopolitisch, libertin, glamourös und dekadent – mit fotografischer Präzision erfasst Christopher Isherwood die letzten Tage der Weimarer Repub …
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Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man
Ein Tag im November 1962. In einem Vorort von Los Angeles lebt George. Seit Jim, sein Freund, ums Leben gekommen ist, ist ihm ‘das amerikanische Utopia’ die Hölle auf Erden. Mühsam schleppt er sich d …
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Christopher Isherwood: Praterveilchen
Es ist das Jahr 1933. Europa steht am Abgrund, und in London laufen die Dreharbeiten für eine Filmschnulze namens ‘Praterveilchen’. Der ebenso temperamentvolle wie narzisstische Regisseur Friedrich B …
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Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris steigt um
Berlin am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Der junge Engländer William Bradshaw verbringt seine Tage damit, bourgeoisen Damen Englischstunden zu geben, nachts jedoch umgibt er sich mit Gestalten der …
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Christopher Isherwood: Sixties
This second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader f …
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Christopher Isherwood: Liberation
Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, …
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Christopher Isherwood & Swami Prabhavananda: How to Know God
The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1, 500 years ago, and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying c …
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Christopher Isherwood & Swami Prabhavananda: How to Know God
The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1, 500 years ago, and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying c …
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Christopher Isherwood: Liberation
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 journe …
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Christopher Isherwood: Single Man
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 Cali …
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Christopher Isherwood: Sixties
This second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader fr …
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€14.99
Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators
The 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 …
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Christopher Isherwood: Christopher and His Kind
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 a …
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Christopher Isherwood: Down There on a Visit
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as ‘Christopher Isherwoo …
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Christopher Isherwood: Meeting by the River
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 monas …
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Christopher Isherwood: Memorial
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, an …
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Christopher Isherwood: Prater Violet
‘A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence’ – Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental …
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Christopher Isherwood: World in the Evening
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 ret …
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Christopher Isherwood: Condor and the Cows
WITH 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, …
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Christopher Isherwood: Kathleen and Frank
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, wh …
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Christopher Isherwood: Lions and Shadows
WITH 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 scho …
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Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple
WITH 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 …
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Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
Discover 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 …
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Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains
After 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 deb …
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Christopher Isherwood: Berlin Novels
Christopher 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 frien …
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Christopher Isherwood: Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
In 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 s …
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Christopher Isherwood: Lost Years
Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. …
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Don Bachardy & Christopher Isherwood: Animals
Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine s Day 1953. …
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Christopher Isherwood: Un hombre soltero
George —Falconer en la versión cinematográfica de Tom Ford—, un profesor inglés de mediana edad, lucha por sobreponerse a la repentina muerte de su pareja, Jim, en un accidente de coche. Corre el año …
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Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
Isherwood’s classic story of Berlin in the 1930s – and the inspiration for Cabaret – now in a stand-alone edition. First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen …
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Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains
Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly …
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Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related n …
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Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators
A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after ww I and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the C …
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Christopher Isherwood: La violeta del Prater
Corre el año 1933, Hitler ha sido nombrado canciller de Alemania y la situación en Austria es cada vez más inestable. Sin embargo, Chatsworth, productor de cine británico, se dispone a realizar un dr …
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Christopher Isherwood: Adiós a Berlín
Christopher, un joven británico, alquila una habitación en la capital alemana e imparte clases de inglés para ganarse la vida. Este trabajo y su curiosidad de escritor en ciernes le llevarán a conoce …
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Christopher Isherwood: El señor Norris cambia de tren
En 1931, a bordo de un tren con destino a Berlín, William Bradshaw conoce a Arthur Norris, un británico de aspecto cómico e intrigante con el cual entabla una amistad que le llevará a descubrir su am …
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Christopher Isherwood: Nur zu Besuch
‘Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch.’ New York Times —  Im Hintergrund war immer Berlin. Es rief mich jede Nacht, mit der rauen, verführerischen Stimme einer Grammophonplatte. Berli …
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Christopher Isherwood: Begegnung am Fluss
Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander – und m …
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Christopher Isherwood: Mein Guru und sein Schüler
Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Überzeugungen, die di …
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Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators
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 …
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Swami Prabhavananda: Religion in Practice
This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and translator of Hindu scriptures. They present a direct and pragmatic app …
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Swami Prabhavananda: Religion in Practice
This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and translator of Hindu scriptures. They present a direct and pragmatic app …
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€41.08
Aldous Huxley & Christopher Isherwood: Jacob’s Hands
Jacob Ericson is a quiet, kind and somewhat simple man who works as a ranch hand for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter, Sharon, in California’s Mojave Desert in the 1920s. Jacob is …
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Christopher Isherwood: Kathleen and Frank
A pivotal book in Isherwood’s career that reveals as much about him as the parents he set out to portray Kathleen and Frank is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents-their meeting in 1895, marr …
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Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple
The author of The Berlin Stories and A Single Man chronicles his thirty-year relationship with his spiritual advisor, a Hindu priest.My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait o …
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