Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Christopher Isherwood
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 (1988) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Sally Bowles 5 copie
The Landauers 2 copie
I Am Waiting 2 copie
Dorian Book Quarterly 2 copie
Essentials of Vedanta 2 copie
On Ruegen Island {short story} 2 copie
The Berlin of Sally Bowles 1 copia
Christopher Isherwood reads two lectures on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Vivekananda [video recording] (2007) — Speaker — 1 copia
Isherwood Christopher 1 copia
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Interview 1 copia
Hypothesis and Belief {article} 1 copia
H. G. Wells {article} 1 copia
Người Cô Độc 1 copia
R. L. S. {article} 1 copia
Katherine Mansfield {article} 1 copia
Mr. Lancaster {short story} 1 copia
Klaus Mann {article} 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 544 copie
WHAT VEDANTA MEANS TO ME CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ALDOUS HUXLEY - CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - AND GERALD HEARD (1961) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Nome legale
- Bradshaw-Isherwood, Christopher William
- Altri nomi
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Data di nascita
- 1904-08-26
- Data di morte
- 1986-01-04
- Luogo di sepoltura
- body donated to science
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
USA (1946) - Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- High Lane, Cheshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (prostate)
- Luogo di residenza
- Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sintra, Portugal
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
playwright
translator - Relazioni
- Bachardy, Don (partner)
Hamilton, Gerald (friend) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1949)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Robert Kirsch Award (1984)
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read, April 2020: Mr Norris Changes Trains in 1001 Books to read before you die (Aprile 2020)
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5 Best 5 Years (1)
Folio Society (1)
Europe (1)
Favorite Memoirs (1)
Epistolary Books (1)
Modernism (1)
1930s (2)
Read These Too (1)
Tagged Widows (1)
Books I've Read (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Five star books (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 83
- Opere correlate
- 28
- Utenti
- 12,815
- Popolarità
- #1,831
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 270
- ISBN
- 494
- Lingue
- 19
- Preferito da
- 42
- Citazioni
- 343