Mr Norris changes trains
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- 9 uur lezen
This book portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and Mr.Norris.
De Berlijnse RomansReeks
Deze romanserie neemt lezers mee naar de tumultueuze straten van Berlijn in de aanloop naar de Tweede Wereldoorlog, en vangt de levendige maar precaire sfeer van die tijd. Het volgt de ervaringen van een buitenstaander die zijn weg vindt in een wereld van excentrieke personages en bohemienachtige decadentie. Met geestige observaties en scherpe proza portretteert de serie een samenleving die wankelt op de rand van immense verandering en gevaar. Deze verhalen bieden een boeiend inkijkje in een stad en een tijdperk dat werd overschaduwd door een dreigende politieke storm.
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Goodbye to Berlin
- 208bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again. In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters, perverts, political manipulators; to the very, very guilty and to the dwindling band of innocents. It is goodbye to a Berlin wild, wicked, breathtaking, decadent beyond belief and already - in the years between the wars - welcoming death in through the door, though more with a wink than a whimper. ~from the back cover
The Berlin Stories
- 207bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction by the acclaimed novelist Maupin.
New Directions - 134: The Berlin Stories
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- 15 uur lezen
First published in 1935 and 1939, the two related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which make up The Berlin Stories are recognized today as classics of modern fiction.A charming city of avenues and cafés, a grotesque city of night-people and fantasts, a dangerous city of vice and intrigue, a powerful city of millionaires and mobs - all this was Berlin in 1931, the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power.Here are Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught in the struggle between Nazis and Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; the Landauers, a distinguished and doomed Jewish family; Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in "I Am a Camera" and by Liza Minelli in "Cabaret."
The Berlin novels
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- 18 uur lezen
Includes Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin , the inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret . It is a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror and a portrait of Bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.
