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Christopher Isherwood, born in Cheshire, England, in 1904, wrote both novels and nonfiction. He was a lifelong friend of W.H. Auden and wrote several plays with him, including Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6. He lived in Germany from 1928 until 1933 and his writings during this period described the political and social climate of pre-Hitler Germany. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. He lived in California, working on film scripts and adapting plays for television. The musical Cabaret is based on several of Isherwood's stories and on his play, I Am a Camera. His other works include Mr. Norris Changes Trains, about life in Germany in the early 1930s; Down There on a Visit, an autobiographical novel; and Where Joy Resides, published after his death in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Berlin Stories… (more)
The Berlin Stories 2,099 copies, 39 reviews
A Single Man 2,071 copies, 79 reviews
Goodbye to Berlin 1,970 copies, 44 reviews
Mr Norris Changes Trains 1,007 copies, 25 reviews
Christopher and His Kind 759 copies, 10 reviews
Prater Violet 486 copies, 12 reviews
Down There on a Visit 372 copies, 3 reviews
The World in the Evening 333 copies, 2 reviews
A Meeting by the River 294 copies, 2 reviews
Memorial 237 copies, 2 reviews
Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 228 copies, 5 reviews
All the Conspirators 204 copies, 1 review
My Guru and His Disciple 199 copies, 5 reviews
Jacob's Hands 176 copies, 3 reviews
Ramakrishna and His Disciples 120 copies, 1 review
A Single Man [2009 film] (Author) 118 copies, 4 reviews
Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951 114 copies, 3 reviews
Journey to a War (Author) 106 copies, 2 reviews
Kathleen and Frank 102 copies, 1 review
Great English Short Stories (Editor) 99 copies, 1 review
Exhumations 92 copies
The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969 90 copies, 1 review
The Condor and the Cows 59 copies, 1 review
Vedanta for Modern Man 46 copies, 1 review
October 37 copies, 2 reviews
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Frankenstein: The True Story 35 copies, 1 review
The Loved One [1965 film] (Screenwriter) 14 copies, 1 review
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I Am Waiting 2 copies
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Threepenny Novel (Translator, some editions) 655 copies, 9 reviews
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (Contributor, some editions) 528 copies, 8 reviews
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (Contributor) 418 copies, 6 reviews
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 318 copies
Cabaret [1972 film] (Original stories) 294 copies, 5 reviews
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (Contributor) 293 copies, 1 review
How to Know God (Translator, some editions) 286 copies, 7 reviews
Intimate Journals (Translator, some editions) 231 copies, 1 review
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Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination (Translator, some editions) 191 copies, 4 reviews
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