SOURCE: Review of Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood. Queen's Quarterly XLVI, no. 2 (summer 1939): 244-45.

In the following review, the reviewer provides a favorable assessment of Goodbye to Berlin.

In Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood continues his account of the Berlin of pre-Hitler days, begun in Mr. Norris Changes Trains. One section of the book, Sally Bowles, has already been published as a separate volume. Goodbye to Berlin deals with that period of the author's life when he was earning his livelihood as a tutor in the German capital. Poverty and inclination led him to live in the cheapest boarding houses and mingle almost exclusively with the poorer classes. The people whom he knew are well described; the author's range is wide and his analyses of character suggestive and often acute. The tone of the book is objective and impersonal throughout. One would wish, perhaps, to know more...