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The Berlin stories / Christopher Isherwood ; introduction by Armistead Maupin ; preface by Christopher Isherwood

By:

Isherwood, Christopher, , 1904-1986

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Directions Book. , c2008Description: 410 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780811218047

Contained works:

Isherwood, Christopher , 1904-1986

Subject(s):

Berlin (Germany) -- --Social life and customs -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Autobiographical fiction

DDC classification:

FIC ISH

LOC classification:

PR6017.S5 L37 2008

Contents:

The last of Mr. Norris -- Goodbye to Berlin

Summary: The Berlin Stories contains two related novels, "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" and "Goobye to Berlin". Here are Mr. Norris, the bewiggged debauchee, mysteriously intriguing with both Nazis and Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce her büste might relieve her heart palpitations, the Lanauers, a wealthy and doomed Jewish merchant family; and the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in " I am a Camera" and Liza Minnelli in "Cabaret".

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC ISH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021873

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The last of Mr. Norris -- Goodbye to Berlin

The Berlin Stories contains two related novels, "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" and "Goobye to Berlin". Here are Mr. Norris, the bewiggged debauchee, mysteriously intriguing with both Nazis and Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce her büste might relieve her heart palpitations, the Lanauers, a wealthy and doomed Jewish merchant family; and the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in " I am a Camera" and Liza Minnelli in "Cabaret".

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