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The Berlin Stories
Written by Christopher Isherwood
Narrated by Michael York
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin—charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on stage and screen in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.
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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and autobiographer. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel that inspired the musical Cabaret; A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which “carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement.” Isherwood died in 1986.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5didn't realise this audiobook was abridged, leaves out so much of the original book. not a fan.
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