The Berlin stories the Last of Mr. Norris ; and, Goodbye to Berlin
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Beverly Hills, CA] : Phoenix Books, [2007]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Abridged. Duration: 2:58:56. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The last of Mr. Norris -- Goodbye to Berlin. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Michael York. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 42873 KB; MP3 file size: 84097 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | City and town life -- Fiction Autobiographical fiction, English British -- Germany -- Fiction Audiobooks Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin make up this 1946 reissue of Christopher Isherwood's finest novels. Both are set in 1930s Berlin during the rise of Hitler. Based in part on the author's experience as an English tutor in Germany, each one is a theatric m�lange of fact and fiction, a rousing and provocative intersection of history and fantasy. The Last of Mr. Norris depicts the debauchery of an aging criminal caught in the struggle between the Nazis and the Communists. Goodbye to Berlin, an account of young man who explores his sexual identity in the city's nightclubs, is narrated by Isherwood himself and is considered among the most significant political novels of the twentieth century. Together the stories detail the tenuous existence of marginal people who are unaware of the political horrors to come.