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![]() | Christopher and His Kind, 1929-1939 (1976) A non fiction book by Christopher Isherwood |
Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life in the States.
The book revealingly contrasts fact with fiction-the real people Isherwood met in Germany with the portraits of them in his two Berlin novels, who then appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.
But one does not need to be familiar with his body of work to appreciate the powerful and compelling story he tells here. Isherwood left Berlin in 1933, after Hitler came to power. For the next four years, he wandered around Europe-through Greece, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France-with a German boy named Heinz.
The characters in the book include W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E.M. Forster as well as the literary circles of Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Chronicling German refugees and the British colony in Portugal, the Group Theatre company (which performed the three Auden-Isherwood plays) and the film studio where he worked and which he used as the setting for Prater Violet, Christopher and His Kind is an engrossing and powerfully rendered portrait of a decade in the life of a major writer.
The book revealingly contrasts fact with fiction-the real people Isherwood met in Germany with the portraits of them in his two Berlin novels, who then appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.
But one does not need to be familiar with his body of work to appreciate the powerful and compelling story he tells here. Isherwood left Berlin in 1933, after Hitler came to power. For the next four years, he wandered around Europe-through Greece, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France-with a German boy named Heinz.
The characters in the book include W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E.M. Forster as well as the literary circles of Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Chronicling German refugees and the British colony in Portugal, the Group Theatre company (which performed the three Auden-Isherwood plays) and the film studio where he worked and which he used as the setting for Prater Violet, Christopher and His Kind is an engrossing and powerfully rendered portrait of a decade in the life of a major writer.
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Hardback Editions
1980 : Hardback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939. Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: 0 Availability: Amazon More details... |
March 1977 : Hardback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind 1929 - 1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-413-37130-1 / 978-0-413-37130-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Eyre Methuen Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1977 : Hardback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: Eyre Methuen, London Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1977 : Hardback
| Title: CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND 1929-1939. Author(s): Christopher. Isherwood Publisher: Eyre Methuen Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 1976 : Hardback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind, 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-374-31256-7 / 978-0-374-31256-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind (Vintage Classics) Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-09-956107-7 / 978-0-09-956107-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Classics Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher And His Kind Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-8166-3863-2 / 978-0-8166-3863-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1996 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher and his Kind 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: Minerva Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
June 1987 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher & His Kind: A Biography Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-374-52036-4 / 978-0-374-52036-6 (USA edition) Publisher: North Point Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1987 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher. Isherwood ISBN: 0-380-01795-4 / 978-0-380-01795-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Avon Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 1985 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-413-59620-6 / 978-0-413-59620-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Mandarin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1978 : Paperback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0-417-02700-1 / 978-0-417-02700-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1977 : Paperback
| Title: CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND:1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: Avon/Discus Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1976 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: Farrar Staus Giroux Availability: Amazon More details... |
Audio Editions
January 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Christopher and His Kind Author(s): Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 1-61573-072-9 / 9781615730728 (USA edition) Publisher: Highbridge Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
January 1976 : Unknown
| Title: Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939 Author(s): Christopher Isherwood Publisher: Farrar Staus Giroux Availability: Amazon More details... |
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