About Christopher Isherwood
Best known for The Berlin Stories - the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret - Christopher Isherwood was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement.
Novels
All the Conspirators (1928)
The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties (1938)
Prater Violet (1945)
The World in the Evening (1954)
Down There on a Visit (1962)
Approach to Vedanta (1963)
A Single Man (1964)
A Meeting by the River (1967)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties (1938)
Prater Violet (1945)
The World in the Evening (1954)
Down There on a Visit (1962)
Approach to Vedanta (1963)
A Single Man (1964)
A Meeting by the River (1967)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
Omnibus
Collections
On the Frontier (poems) (1938) (with W H Auden)
The ascent of F.6 / On the frontier (1958) (with W H Auden)
Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses (1966)
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris (1979)
Selection (1979)
People One Ought to Know (poems) (1982) (with Sylvain Mangeot)
Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (1989)
The Mortmere Stories (1994) (with Edward Upward)
The Berlin Stories (2008)
The ascent of F.6 / On the frontier (1958) (with W H Auden)
Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses (1966)
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris (1979)
Selection (1979)
People One Ought to Know (poems) (1982) (with Sylvain Mangeot)
Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (1989)
The Mortmere Stories (1994) (with Edward Upward)
The Berlin Stories (2008)
Plays
The Dance of Death (1933) (with W H Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin: or, Where is Francis? (1935) (with W H Auden)
The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts (1936) (with W H Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin: or, Where is Francis? (1935) (with W H Auden)
The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts (1936) (with W H Auden)
Novellas
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Journey to a War (1939) (with W H Auden)
Vedanta for the Western World (1945)
Vedanta for modern man (1952)
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family (1952)
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)
Kathleen and Frank (1971)
Christopher and His Kind, 1929-1939 (1976)
October (1982)
The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood On Mystical Religion (1986)
Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God (1987)
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1939-1960 Vol 1 (1996)
The Repton Letters (1997)
Diaries: Isherwood: Vol 2 (1999)
The Lost Years: a Memoir: 1945-1951 (2000)
aka Lost Years 1945-1951
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood (2001)
Isherwood on Writing: The Lectures in California (2007)
The Sixties: Diaries Vol Two: 1960-1969 (2010)
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 (2012)
Vedanta for the Western World (1945)
Vedanta for modern man (1952)
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family (1952)
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)
Kathleen and Frank (1971)
Christopher and His Kind, 1929-1939 (1976)
October (1982)
The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood On Mystical Religion (1986)
Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God (1987)
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1939-1960 Vol 1 (1996)
The Repton Letters (1997)
Diaries: Isherwood: Vol 2 (1999)
The Lost Years: a Memoir: 1945-1951 (2000)
aka Lost Years 1945-1951
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood (2001)
Isherwood on Writing: The Lectures in California (2007)
The Sixties: Diaries Vol Two: 1960-1969 (2010)
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 (2012)
Anthologies containing stories by Christopher Isherwood
Short stories
| I Am Waiting (1939) |
Books about Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1976) by Francis King
The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (2000) by Armistead Maupin
The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (2000) by Armistead Maupin
Christopher Isherwood recommends
 The Rotten Elements (1969) (Spiral ascent, book 2) Edward Upward "So wonderful and so profoundly original, so calm and yet so deeply moving, that one can only call it a masterpiece." |  On Stage: A Chrestomathy of His Plays (1991) Ray Bradbury "The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarate you... he is a very great and unusual talent." |
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