The Berlin Stories
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Baker & Taylor
A two-in-one volume containing the worksThe Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin finds the characters of Sally Bowles, Fräulein Schroeder, and the doomed Landauers caught up by the nightlife, danger, and mystique of 1931 Berlin. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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A two-in-one volume containing the works
Baker & Taylor
A two-in-one volume containing the worksThe Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin finds the characters of Sally Bowles, Fräulein Schroeder, and the doomed Landauers caught up by the nightlife, danger, and mystique of 1931 Berlin. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Norton Pub
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 novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin,which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwoodmagnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues andcafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers;dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with itsmobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning hismove to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth ofcharacters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in thedemimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by JulieHarris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret;Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught betweenthe Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks anoperation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heartpalpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, theLandauers.
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A two-in-one volume containing the works
Norton Pub
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 novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin,which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwoodmagnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues andcafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers;dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with itsmobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning hismove to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth ofcharacters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in thedemimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by JulieHarris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret;Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught betweenthe Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks anoperation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heartpalpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, theLandauers.
Alternate Title:
Goodbye to Berlin
Last of Mr. Norris
Last of Mr. Norris
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Imprint:
New York - New Directions Pub
Pages:
207
Series:
- Naval doctrine publication - 1120
ISBN:
9780811218047, 081121804X
Language:
English
Notes:
The last of Mr. Norris -- Goodbye to Berlin
Statement of responsibility:
Christopher Isherwood ; introduction by Armistead Maupin ; preface by Christopher Isherwood
Characteristics:
xxi, 191, 207 p. ;,21 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Isherwood, Christopher
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Add a CommentBerlin in the 30s as remembered by Christopher Isherwood - great stories, really a snapshot of the time.