The Berlin Stories

Name: The Berlin Stories
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9781597777971

Author: Christopher Isherwood

Narrator: Michael York

Abridged: 2 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.

Published: 04/01/1990

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin—charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on stage and screen in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on September 20, 2019

Mr Norris Changes Trains is somewhat like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes turned inside out – in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the narrator Dr. Watson assists a genius private investigator and in Mr Norris Changes Trains the narrator William Bradshaw assists a vulgar shady operator… Opposite me......more

Goodreads review by Matthew Ted on April 01, 2021

I'm a big Isherwood fan and have been since I read A Single Man several years ago. The Berlin Novels are comprised of two separate novels: Mr Norris Changes Trains (or, in the US, published as The Last of Mr Norris) and Goodbye to Berlin. The former has William Bradshaw as the narrator in 1930s Berl......more

Goodreads review by Lady Clementina on May 27, 2017

This was again a new author for me and I found I quite enjoyed reading this. The first of the novellas the Last of Mr Norris reminded me very much of Travels with My Aunt. Mr Norris (who our narrator—a version of Isherwood—meets on a train) is a reprobate, and his dealings (and connections), almost......more