Christopher and His Kind
Title | Christopher and His Kind PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0099561077 |
Writing at a distance of nearly 40 years from the earlier 'Christopher', Isherwood has succeeded in evoking a comically harassed figure in a tragic decade.
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
Title | Ramakrishna and His Disciples PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2002-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788185301181 |
Excerpt: This is the story of a phenomenon. I will begin by calling him simply that, rather than 'holy man', 'mystic', or 'saint', all emotive words with mixed associations which may attract some readers, repel others. A phenomenon is always a fact, an object of experience. That is how I shall try to approach Ramakrishna... I only ask you to approach Ramakrishna with the same open-minded curiosity you might feel for any highly unusual human being. Christopher Isherwood unfolds a fantastic story with a calm finesse...
A Single Man
Title | A Single Man PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466853344 |
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.
Goodbye to Berlin
Title | Goodbye to Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Large type books |
ISBN |
My Guru and His Disciple
Title | My Guru and His Disciple PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466853301 |
My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at M-G-M, intellectual sparring sessions with Berthold Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center, a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety, and the pious drudgery of translating (in collaboration with the Swami) the Bhagavad-Gita. Seldom has a single man been owed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline; out of the passionate dialectic between these drives, My Guru and His Disciple has been written.
Down There on a Visit
Title | Down There on a Visit PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-06-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374533806 |
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.
Lost Years
Title | Lost Years PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 595 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0061856800 |
Book description to come.