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Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia
This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, places, novels, stories, essays and plays, introduces Isherwood to those who know little of him, expands the knowledge of the literate general reader, and refreshes teachers of literature with Isherwood details. Entries on Isherwood's most influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, are significant. Included are all of the monumental "roles" Isherwood exemplified during his life--writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta.
The Isherwood Century
Best known for Goodbye to Berlin -- the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret -- Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer. That is truer now than ever. Readers of his plays, novels, and diaries continue to discover Isherwood's lasting contribution to twentieth-century culture, literature, autobiographical fiction, and memoir, to gay rights, and to twentieth-century culture.
Christopher Isherwood
Written with the benefit of unrestricted access to his private archives, letters and manuscripts, a portrait emerges of Isherwood as an exile who has written and lived in search of meaning, and a writer whose writings reflect many of his personal obsessions as well as the obsessions of the tumultous times through which he lived.
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin. The author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the British Isherwood found fame through the adaptation of that work into the stage play and film I Am a Camera and then into the stage musical and film Cabaret. Throughout his career he was a keen observer, always seemingly in the right place at the right time. Whether in Berlin in the 1930s or in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Isherwood (1904--86) reflected on his life and his world and wrote perceptive commentary on contemporary European and American history and culture. His ties to California made him more American than British. "I have spent half my life in the United States," he said. "Los ...
The Wishing Tree
In this collection of articles, Isherwood writes about his teachers, his conversion to Vedanta, and various literary concerns.
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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of the great gay icons, and his relationships are discussed frankly in these diaries.
