The Berlin StoriesThe Berlin Stories
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Book, 2008
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Current format, Book, 2008, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsFirst published in the 1930s,The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels,The Last of Mr. Norris andGoodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires--this 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 inI Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli inCabaret; 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 Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
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- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
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