The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and  Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)
 

The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin (New Directions Book)

by Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood was a diverse writer whose accomplishments included The Mortmere Stories (Edward Upward Series), A Single Man and a translation of The Song of God (Bhagavad Gita). But many critics hailed The Berlin Stories, the reissue of two of his best novels, as his finest. In the book, a man named Christopher Isherwood, who is and is not the author, writes a story of exile, combining... (read more)

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The basis for _Cabaret_, this book gives one a very good picture of Berlin just prior to he biginning of the WW2. It's a pity that the world failed to take heed of Isherwood's warnings about the Nazis (until it was too late).

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