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9780062084743 | Harpercollins, November 20, 2012, cover price $39.99

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First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of a series of individuals, whose lives are all about to be ruined.
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9781850890348 | Large print edition (Abc-Clio Inc, June 1, 1986), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis.

Paperback:

9780811220248 | New Directions, September 27, 2012, cover price $14.95

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9780792733782 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, November 1, 2004), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the revival of "Cabaret", now opening on Broadway, "Goodbye To Berlin" is the original story of the chanteuse heroine Sally Bowles.

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9780792733775 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2004), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis.
9780140864038 | Penguin/Highbridge, February 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the revival of "Cabaret", now opening on Broadway, "Goodbye To Berlin" is the original story of the chanteuse heroine Sally Bowles.
9780694509560 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, May 23, 1988), cover price $14.00

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Product Description: This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. These pages are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time—Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W...read more
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9780061180194, titled "The Sixties: Diaries, 1960-1969" | 1 edition (Harpercollins, November 16, 2010), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

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9780061185007 | Reprint edition (Perennial, December 6, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

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Product Description: In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Charles Laughton, Gielgud, Olivier, Richard Burton and Aldous Huxley...read more
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9781845951658 | Gardners Books, October 7, 2010, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.

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Product Description: Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood...read more
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9780816638611 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fiction The classic novel on the golden era of film, now back in print!
9780374520533 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1987), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna.

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9781615730742 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, January 12, 2010), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s.

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Product Description: When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day...read more
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9780816638628 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fiction The author's favorite of his own novels, now back in print!
9780374520380 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1996), cover price $11.00

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9781615730582 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, December 22, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife.

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Miscellaneous:

9780061856808 | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city...read more
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9781590174548, titled "Berlin Stories" | New York Review of Books, January 24, 2012, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city.

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9781558002180 | Dove Entertainment Inc, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780811218047 | Reissue edition (New Directions, September 1, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.

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Product Description: In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and on spirituality...read more
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9780816646937, titled "Isherwood on Writing: The Lectures in California" | Univ of Minnesota Pr, December 28, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.

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9780816646944 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.

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The late author describes his 'lost years' in postwar Santa Monica, New York, and London, a time spent in frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, and debilitating anxiety and despair.
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9780061180019 | Harpercollins, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The late author describes his 'lost years' in postwar Santa Monica, New York, and London, a time spent in frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, and debilitating anxiety and despair.

Miscellaneous:

9780061370649 | Harpercollins, October 17, 2007, cover price $14.99

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9788420632513 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $61.95

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9788420632452 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $25.95

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9788483460962 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, September 30, 2006), cover price $12.95

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9788483460979 | Debolsillo, September 30, 2006, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: Opening a window into the most fascinating and, in many ways, most mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood’s life, Kathleen and Christopher collects more than one hundred previously unpublished letters the young author wrote to his mother between 1935 and 1940...read more
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9780816645800 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 10, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Opening a window into the most fascinating and, in many ways, most mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood’s life, Kathleen and Christopher collects more than one hundred previously unpublished letters the young author wrote to his mother between 1935 and 1940.

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9788497936828 | 1 tra edition (Debolsillo, June 30, 2005), cover price $13.95

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Product Description: Contents: Translators' Preface; Introduction by Aldous Huxley; Gita and Mahabharata; Bhagavad-Gita; The Cosmology of the Gita.
By Aldous Huxley (contributor), Christopher Isherwood (trans) and Swami Prabhavananda (trans)
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9781419173769 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 31, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Contents: Translators' Preface; Introduction by Aldous Huxley; Gita and Mahabharata; Bhagavad-Gita; The Cosmology of the Gita.

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Product Description: In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account of this journey, The Condor and the Cows, is one of very few classic travel books on South America and was among the books Isherwood considered his best...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William Caskey (photographer), Christopher Isherwood and Jeffrey Meyers (foreword by)
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9780816639823 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.

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Product Description: Best known for The Berlin Stories-the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret-Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet (1945) and A Single Man (1964); episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), Down There on a Visit (1962), and Lions and Shadows (1938); and excerpts from his nonfiction works, Exhumations (1966), Kathleen and Frank (1971), and My Guru and His Disciple (1980)...read more
By Don Bachardy (editor), Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal (introduced by) and James P. White (editor)
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9780816640829 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Best known for The Berlin Stories-the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret-Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781590071984 | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, March 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.

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Product Description: Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, rather angry about the whole experience.
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9780062504029 | Vedanta Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, rather angry about the whole experience.
9780060640767 | Vedanta Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Christopher Isherwood came to the Vedanta Society fed up with religion, in fact, rather angry about the whole experience.

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Product Description: To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin. The author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the British Isherwood found fame through the adaptation of that work into the stage play and film I Am a Camera and then into the stage musical and film Cabaret...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781578064076 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin.

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9781578064083 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: To many readers Christopher Isherwood means Berlin.

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Product Description: "My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life...read more
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9780374217020 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years.

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9780816638642 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years.
9780374520878 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1996), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years.

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Product Description: Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable 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 1939, when he arrived in America...read more
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9780816638635 | Reprint edition (Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable 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 1939, when he arrived in America.

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