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Christopher Isherwood
(Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood)
(1906 - 1986)Best known for The Berlin Stories - the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret - Christopher Isherwood was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
All the Conspirators (1928)
The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)
Lions and Shadows (1938)
Prater Violet (1945)
The World in the Evening (1954)
Down There on a Visit (1962)
An Approach to Vedanta (1963)
A Single Man (1964)
A Meeting by the River (1967)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
The Last of Mr. Norris (1935)
Lions and Shadows (1938)
Prater Violet (1945)
The World in the Evening (1954)
Down There on a Visit (1962)
An Approach to Vedanta (1963)
A Single Man (1964)
A Meeting by the River (1967)
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
Collections
On the Frontier (poems) (1938) (with W H Auden)
The ascent of F.6 / On the frontier (1958) (with W H Auden)
Exhumations (1966)
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris (1979)
Selection (1979)
People One Ought to Know (poems) (1982) (with Sylvain Mangeot)
Where Joy Resides (1989)
The Mortmere Stories (1994) (with Edward Upward)
The Berlin Stories (2008)
The ascent of F.6 / On the frontier (1958) (with W H Auden)
Exhumations (1966)
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris (1979)
Selection (1979)
People One Ought to Know (poems) (1982) (with Sylvain Mangeot)
Where Joy Resides (1989)
The Mortmere Stories (1994) (with Edward Upward)
The Berlin Stories (2008)
Anthologies edited
Plays
The Dance of Death (1933) (with W H Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) (with W H Auden)
The Ascent of F6 (1936) (with W H Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935) (with W H Auden)
The Ascent of F6 (1936) (with W H Auden)
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction
Journey to a War (1939) (with W H Auden)
Vedanta for the Western World (1945)
The Condor and the Cows (1949)
The Memorial (1952)
Vedanta for modern man (1952)
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)
Kathleen and Frank (1971)
Christopher and His Kind (1976)
October (1981)
Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God (1987)
The Wishing Tree (1987)
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1939-1960 Vol 1 (1996)
The Repton Letters (1997)
Diaries: Isherwood: Vol 2 (1999)
The Lost Years (2000)
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood (2001)
Isherwood on Writing (2007)
The Sixties (2010)
Liberation (2012)
The Animals (2013) (with Don Bachardy)
Vedanta for the Western World (1945)
The Condor and the Cows (1949)
The Memorial (1952)
Vedanta for modern man (1952)
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)
Kathleen and Frank (1971)
Christopher and His Kind (1976)
October (1981)
Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God (1987)
The Wishing Tree (1987)
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1939-1960 Vol 1 (1996)
The Repton Letters (1997)
Diaries: Isherwood: Vol 2 (1999)
The Lost Years (2000)
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood (2001)
Isherwood on Writing (2007)
The Sixties (2010)
Liberation (2012)
The Animals (2013) (with Don Bachardy)
Omnibus editions
Anthologies containing stories by Christopher Isherwood
Short stories
| I Am Waiting (1939) |
Christopher Isherwood recommends
On Stage (1991)
Ray Bradbury
"The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarate you... he is a very great and unusual talent."
The Rotten Elements (1969)
(Spiral ascent, book 2)
Edward Upward
"So wonderful and so profoundly original, so calm and yet so deeply moving, that one can only call it a masterpiece."
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