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Christopher Isherwood | | Birth Date: |
August 26, 1904 | | Death Date: |
January 4, 1986 | | Place of Birth: |
Cheshire, England | | Place of Death: |
Santa Monica, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Christopher Isherwood
1,223 words, approx. 4 pages
 Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a British-born American writer who worked in many genres, including fiction, drama, film, travel, and autobiography. He was especially esteemed for his stories about Berlin in the early 1930s. The son of a career... summary from source:
 Biography of Christopher (William Bradshaw) Isherwood
5,419 words, approx. 18 pages
 Christopher Isherwood may be the most self-absorbed of contemporary writers. As Angus Wilson has observed, "His fictional life is one of the important Anglo-Saxon literary legends of our time and everything that he writes relates to that legend." He... summary from source:
Biography of Christopher (William Bradshaw) Isherwood
4,740 words, approx. 16 pages
Christopher Isherwood was considered a major British writer of the 1930s and 1940s, and much of his writing continued to be well received until the end of his life. Following his critically praised second and third novels, The Memorial (1932) and Mr.... 
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 Christopher Isherwood Quotes
1,823 words, approx. 6 pages
Christopher Isherwood ( 1904-08-26 - 1986-01-04 ) was a British-American writer. Sourced I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. "Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939) If I fear anything, I fear the...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Washington Post Christopher Isherwood: A Friend of Great Rarity
02/14/1988: 1,101 words, approx. 4 pages CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD A Personal Memoir By John Lehmann Henry Holt. 150 pp. $16.95 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD: A Personal Memoir is a photo album of sorts, a slim, elegant assemblage of word pictures that juxtaposes present and past, with John Lehmann the... summary from source:
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 AP News 'Acquaintance' studies female friendship
7/1/2007: 576 words, approx. 2 pagesBefore Mame Dennis and Vera Charles, those bosom buddies of "Mame" fame, the epitome of fractious female friendship on Broadway must have been the relationship between Kit Markham and Milly Watson Drake.Their tempestuous bonding is chronicled in "Old Acquaintance," an early 1940s comedy by John... summary from source:
The New York Observer Richardson\'d5s Lively Disaster: Waugh\'d5s The Loved One
7/30/2006: 1,039 words, approx. 4 pagesStuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joe Blades
7,167 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Blades chronicles the adaptation of The Berlin Stories to the stage and cinema.
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Excerpt by Kay Ferres
5,844 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following excerpt, Ferres provides a history of the composition and publication of Goodbye to Berlin and discusses the chronology of the stories.
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Critical Essay by Peter Thomas
5,344 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Thomas traces Isherwood's utilization of Camp motifs in his work.
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