Student Guide to Christopher Isherwood - An Introduction and Reappraisal (Paperback)

Interest in Christopher Isherwood's work has grown since his death in 1986, and this interest has included a revisiting of his later work as well as his earlier writing from his time in 1930s Berlin, and the immense success of Mr Norris Changes Trains. His autobiographical writing has also found new readers for his work, as his diaries continue to be published. Traditionally study and explanation of Isherwood's work has always concentrated on the earlier work, and he has been seen largely as a writer of the 1930s, along with Auden, Spender and MacNeice. But Stephen Wade here introduces and explains aspects of Isherwood's later religious fiction as well as covering the Berlin writings. This study guide will expand the reader's knowledge of a writer who is increasingly being rated as one of the major novelists and memoirists of the last century.