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1	The Berlin Stories more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist The two novels in this volume, THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS and GOODBYE TO BERLIN, were first published in 1935 and 1938, and represent Isherwood's best-known, most widely praised works of fiction. They depict such characters as Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught in the struggle between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fr ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $10.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Single Man more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss. see all copies from $4.98! new only from $9.31! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bhagavad-Gita:: The Song of God more books like this by Anonymous, Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Christopher Isherwood (Translator) add to wishlist This translation by Prabhavananda is credited with introducing Hinduism to the West. He neatly edited out some of the redundant or extraneous materials in order to communicate a concise understanding of the text. The BHAGAVAD-GITA describes the basics of the Hindu religious philosophy through the story of Arjuna, who is about to wage war against ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $3.14! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris/Goodbye to Berlin more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist The two novels in this volume, THE LAST OF MR. NORRIS and GOODBYE TO BERLIN, were first published in 1935 and 1938, and represent Isherwood's best-known, most widely praised works of fiction. They depict such characters as Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught in the struggle between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fr ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Shankaras Crest Jewel Of... more books like this by Swami Shankara, Christopher Isherwood (Translator), Swami Prabhavananda (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! new only from $6.81! \| first editions
6	Lost years : a memoir, 1945-1951 more books like this by Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell add to wishlist In this lively memoir in diary form, Christopher Isherwood (who wrote this book in 1971 and left it unrevised at his death in 1986) recreates the postwar years in New York and California. He is remarkably frank about his sex life and his militant homosexuality--and the surprisingly unrepressed attitudes of postwar America--and equally candid about ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 more books like this by Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Bucknell (Introduction by) add to wishlist These diaries begin when English author Isherwood moved to Los Angeles in 1939 to work as a screenwriter and, in bulk, focus on the years he spent there during WWII. Included are his friendships with the likes of Aldous Huxley, Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo, and his spiritual discipleship to the Swami Prabhavananda. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $24.90! \| first editions
8	Christopher & His Kind more books like this by Isherwood add to wishlist Written some 40 years after the riotous and tragic decade that Isherwood spent in pre-war Berlin, this book brings to life the brilliant literary circles in which he moved. Its chief characters are Christopher's "kind", those he regarded as his natural allies and friends. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader more books like this by Christopher Isherwood, James P White (Editor), Don Bachardy (Editor) add to wishlist Selections from eight of Isherwood's books spanning a period of 42 years from 1938-1980. see all copies from $2.63! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Memorial: Portrait of a Family more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist In 1920s England, a student at Cambridge, Eric Vernon, must come to grips with his homosexuality in the face of his dead father's aggressively masculine and heroic life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Goodbye to Berlin more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of a series of individuals, whose lives are all about to be ruined. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.61! \| first editions
12	Christopher and His Kind, 1929-1939 more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist see all copies from $2.38! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Bhagaved Gita: The Song of God by Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Aldous Huxley (Designed by), Christopher Isherwood (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.55! new only from $10.10!
14 view cover	Upanishads Breath of Eter more books like this by Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Christopher Isherwood (Translator), Frederick Manchester (Translator) add to wishlist One of the most important Vedic texts, THE UPANISHADS, contains sacred revelations, insights, and divine truths by saints and seers. They are translated here from the original Sanskrit by Prabhavananda, who is credited with making Hindu scriptures accessible to Western readers, particularly with his widely read translation of THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $9.21!
15 view cover	My Guru and His Disciple more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist In the course of Isherwood's spiritual discipleship to the Swami Prabhavananda in California in the 1940s he pursued a dramatic devotion to both spirituality and sensuality. Sexual sprees and all-night parties one moment, celibacy and fasting the next. His account emerges as a profoundly modern struggle with the nature and role of spirituality ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Down There on a Visit more books like this by Isherwood add to wishlist An introspective, autobiographical novel in which Isherwood assembles four pivotal episodes illustrating conflicts between the loneliness and alienation of the individual and the world at large. The Christopher Isherwood of the novel visits Mr. Lancaster in Germany when he is in his 20s, spends the summer on a Greek island with Ambrose five years ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Prater Violet more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist PRATER VIOLET is the story of the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. This stinging satirical novel skewers the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie, the eponymous PRATER VIOLET, which ironically counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	World in the Evening more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist Isherwood's first novel takes place during World War II and tells the story of Stephen Monk, an Englishman living (as Isherwood did) in California who is transplanted to a small Pennsylvania town after his wife leaves him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19	Vedanta for the Western World: A Symposium on Vedanta more books like this by Christopher Isherwood (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99!
20 view cover	The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel Diary more books like this by Christopher Isherwood, William Caskey (Photographer), Jeffrey Meyers (Foreword by) add to wishlist One of the few classic works of South American travel, now available in paperback with a new foreword by Jeffrey Meyers and additional photographs by Isherwood's lover, Bill Caskey. Isherwood frankly depicts the squalor and discomforts of his journey--as he wrote he was very skeptical about the book but later came to regard it as one of his best. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Jacob's hands more books like this by Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist A jointly-authored film treatment, found in one of Huxley's old trunks. The story is set in the 1920s and involves a ranch worker who has the power to heal with his hands. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, Lions and Shadows. The book evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as Isherwood knew it and describes his life as a tutor, a medical student, and a struggling writer. Above all, Lions and Shadows is a captivating account of a young novelist's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	The ascent of F6 : a tragedy in two acts by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions
24	People One Ought to Know more books like this by Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist A collection of eighteen illustrated poems about a variety of animals with some particularly human characteristics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Narada's way of divine love : Narada Bhakti Sutras more books like this by Narada, Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher.Christopher Isherwood add to wishlist see all copies from $2.37! new only from $3.99!

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