About this work of fiction
The Berlin stories: The last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin. With a pref. by the author by Christopher Isherwood is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafÃs; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionairesâthis is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her BÃ1⁄4ste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Christopher Isherwood
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 1963
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811200707
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, History