Christopher Isherwood Books in Order
Christopher Isherwood is a celebrated novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist whose provocative and introspective works have captivated readers worldwide. Born in 1904 near Manchester, England, he later became a U.S. citizen in 1946 and passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986. As the grandson and heir of a country squire, Isherwood's privileged upbringing is evident in his refined and perceptive writing style. He co-authored several plays with Wystan Auden, including <i>The Dog Beneath the Skin</i> (1932), <i>The Ascent of F6</i> (1936), and <i>On the Frontier</i> (1938), which he later chronicled in his first autobiography, <i>Lions and Shadows.</i> Isherwood's experiences in Berlin, where he taught English, explored his homosexuality, and became embroiled in communism, are immortalized in his most famous works, <i>Mr. Norris Changes Trains</i> (1935) and <i>Goodbye to Berlin</i> (1938).
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Book Series by Christopher Isherwood
- #1AmazonConversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)
- #2AmazonConversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981)
- #3AmazonConversations with Graham Greene(1983)
- #4AmazonConversations with Eudora Welty(1985)
- #5AmazonConversations with Walker Percy(1985)
- #6AmazonConversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985)
- #7AmazonConversations with William Styron(1985)
- #8AmazonConversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986)
- #9AmazonConversations with Lillian Hellman(1986)
- #10AmazonConversations with Tennessee Williams(1986)
- #11AmazonConversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986)
- #12AmazonConversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987)
- #13AmazonTruman Capote: Conversations(1987)
- #14AmazonConversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987)
- #15AmazonConversations with Peter Taylor(1987)
- #16AmazonConversations with Arthur Miller(1987)
- #17AmazonConversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988)
- #18AmazonConversations with Edward Albee(1988)
- #19AmazonConversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988)
- #20AmazonConversations with Norman Mailer(1988)
- #21AmazonConversations with Robert Graves(1989)
- #22AmazonConversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989)
- #23AmazonConversations with Shelby Foote(1989)
- #24AmazonConversations with Robertson Davies(1989)
- #25AmazonConversations with James Baldwin(1989)
- #26AmazonConversations with John Gardner(1990)
- #27AmazonConversations with Richard Wilbur(1990)
- #28AmazonConversations with Tom Wolfe(1990)
- #29AmazonConversations with Raymond Carver(1990)
- #30AmazonConversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990)
- #31AmazonConversations with Reynolds Price(1991)
- #32AmazonConversations with Bernard Malamud(1991)
- #33AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991)
- #34AmazonConversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992)
- #35AmazonConversations With Thornton Wilder(1992)
- #36AmazonConversations with Robert Coles(1992)
- #37AmazonConversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992)
- #38AmazonMore Conversations with Walker Percy(1993)
- #39AmazonConversations with Richard Wright(1993)
- #40AmazonConversations with Paul Bowles(1993)
- #41AmazonConversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994)
- #42AmazonConversations with Amiri Baraka(1994)
- #43AmazonConversations with Toni Morrison(1994)
- #44AmazonConversations with Saul Bellow(1994)
- #45AmazonConversations with Henry Miller(1994)
- #46AmazonConversations with Ernest Gaines(1995)
- #47AmazonConversations with Ralph Ellison(1995)
- #48AmazonConversations with Chester Himes(1995)
- #49AmazonConversations with Susan Sontag(1995)
- #50AmazonConversations with Ishmael Reed(1995)
- #51AmazonConversations with Derek Walcott(1996)
- #52AmazonMore Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996)
- #53AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996)
- #54AmazonConversations with Pauline Kael(1996)
- #55AmazonConversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
- #56AmazonConversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997)
- #57AmazonConversations with Chinua Achebe(1997)
- #58AmazonConversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998)
- #59AmazonConversations with Denise Levertov(1998)
- #60AmazonConversations With William Faulkner(1999)
- #61AmazonConversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999)
- #62AmazonConversations With John Fowles(1999)
- #63AmazonConversations with Salman Rushdie(2000)
- #64AmazonConversations with William S. Burroughs(2000)
- #65AmazonConversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000)
- #66AmazonConversations with Chaim Potok(2001)
- #67AmazonConversations with Richard Ford(2001)
- #68AmazonConversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001)
- #69AmazonConversations with Mary Gordon(2002)
- #70AmazonConversations with Jim Harrison(2002)
- #71AmazonConversations with Clarence Major(2002)
- #72AmazonConversations with Margaret Walker(2002)
- #73AmazonConversations with Erica Jong(2002)
- #74AmazonElie Wiesel: Conversations(2002)
- #75AmazonJoseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003)
- #76AmazonConversations with Rita Dove(2003)
- #77AmazonConversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003)
- #78AmazonConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003)
- #79AmazonConversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003)
- #80AmazonConversations with Gloria Naylor(2004)
- #81AmazonConversations with Audre Lorde(2004)
- #82AmazonConversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)
- #83AmazonConversations With John le Carré(2004)
- #84AmazonConversations with Isaac Asimov(2005)
- #85AmazonConversations with Don DeLillo(2005)
- #86AmazonConversations with Gore Vidal(2005)
- #87AmazonConversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005)
- #88AmazonConversations with Jack Kerouac(2005)
- #89AmazonConversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005)
- #90AmazonConversations with Thomas McGuane(2006)
- #91AmazonConversations with Larry Brown(2007)
- #92AmazonConversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007)
- #93AmazonConversations with Wendell Berry(2007)
- #94AmazonConversations with Leon Forrest(2007)
- #95AmazonConversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1AmazonThe Memorial(1932)
- #2AmazonJourney to a War (With: W.H. Auden)(1939)
- #3AmazonThe Condor And The Cows(1949)
- #4AmazonVedanta for Modern Man(1951)
- #5AmazonVedanta for the Western World(1960)
- #6AmazonRamakrishna and His Disciples(1965)
- #7AmazonKathleen and Frank(1971)
- #8AmazonChristopher and His Kind(1976)
- #9AmazonOctober(1982)
- #10AmazonThe Wishing Tree(1986)
- #11AmazonChristopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1(1996)
- #12AmazonThe Repton Letters(1997)
- #13AmazonLost Years(2000)
- #14AmazonKathleen and Christopher(2005)
- #15AmazonIsherwood on Writing(2007)
- #16AmazonThe Sixties: Diaries Volume Two(2010)
- #17AmazonWhat Vedanta Means To Me(2011)
- #18AmazonLiberation: Diaries Vol 3(2012)
- #19AmazonThe Animals(2013)
- #20AmazonThe Song of God Bhagavad-Gita(2020)
- #1AmazonAll the Conspirators(1928)
- #2AmazonLions and Shadows(1938)
- #3AmazonPrater Violet(1945)
- #4AmazonThe World In The Evening(1954)
- #5AmazonDown There on a Visit(1962)
- #6AmazonApproach to Vedanta(1963)
- #7AmazonA Single Man(1964)
- #8AmazonA Meeting by the River(1967)
- #9AmazonFrankenstein(1973)
- #10AmazonMy Guru And His Disciple(1980)
- #11AmazonJacob's Hands (With: Aldous Huxley)(1939)
- #12AmazonThe Dog Beneath the Skin, Or, Where Is Francis(1986)
- #13AmazonThe Ascent Of F6 / On The Frontier(1958)
- #14AmazonExhumations(1966)
- #15AmazonOn The Frontier(1976)
- #16AmazonSelection(1979)
- #17AmazonPeople One Ought to Know(1982)
- #18AmazonWhere Joy Resides(1989)
- #19AmazonThe Mortmere Stories(1994)
About Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood is a celebrated novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist whose provocative and introspective works have captivated readers worldwide. Born in 1904 near Manchester, England, he later became a U.S. citizen in 1946 and passed away at his home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986. As the grandson and heir of a country squire, Isherwood's privileged upbringing is evident in his refined and perceptive writing style. He co-authored several plays with Wystan Auden, including <i>The Dog Beneath the Skin</i> (1932), <i>The Ascent of F6</i> (1936), and <i>On the Frontier</i> (1938), which he later chronicled in his first autobiography, <i>Lions and Shadows.</i> Isherwood's experiences in Berlin, where he taught English, explored his homosexuality, and became embroiled in communism, are immortalized in his most famous works, <i>Mr. Norris Changes Trains</i> (1935) and <i>Goodbye to Berlin</i> (1938).
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