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A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and
sexuality
Against the backdrop of World War II, "The World in the Evening"
charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless
Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly
ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small
Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair
with a younger man during a visit to the Canary Islands. The world
traveler comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his
newly adopted homeland.
When first published in 1953, "The World in the Evening" was
notable for its clear-eyed depiction of European and American
mores, sexuality, and religion. Today, readers herald Christopher
Isherwood's frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early
appreciation of low and high camp.
This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five
lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and
translator of Hindu scriptures. They present a direct and pragmatic
approach to spiritual life, and a clear guide to Hinduism.
In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, the
celebrated writer greets advancing age with poignant humor and an
unquenchable appetite for the new. Isherwood deepens his study of
Hinduism, writes his final books, and immerses himself in the
vibrant creative scenes of the 1970s. With his long-term companion,
Don Bachardy, Isherwood delves into the art worlds of Los Angeles,
New York, and London, where he meets Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Warhol,
and Hockney. Collaborating with Bachardy on scripts for Broadway
and Hollywood, he encounters John Huston, Merchant and Ivory, John
Travolta, David Bowie, Jon Voight, Armistead Maupin, Elton John,
and Joan Didion. This volume is a densely populated human comedy,
sketched with both ruthlessness and benevolence against the
background of the Vietnam War, the energy crisis, and the Nixon,
Carter, and Reagan White Houses. The final installment of
Isherwood's masterwork reveals a man candidly fearful of his
approaching death, and yet engaged in the vitality and energy of
daily life.
This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five
lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and
translator of Hindu scriptures. They present a direct and pragmatic
approach to spiritual life, and a clear guide to Hinduism.
The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were
composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1,500 years ago,
and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying
commentary interprets the sayings for the modern world, and in
doing so gives a full picture of what yoga is, what its aims are,
and how it can be practised.
The aphorisms collected in this book, first published in 1953, were
composed by Patanjali, a great Indian sage, over 1,500 years ago,
and here translated into clear English prose. The accompanying
commentary interprets the sayings for the modern world, and in
doing so gives a full picture of what yoga is, what its aims are,
and how it can be practised.
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a
'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and
left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible
candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night
scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to
power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his
partner Heinz from persecution.
On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with
Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a
rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the
frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters
of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and
lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors, and
his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the worldwide economic
Depression strangles the masses and the Communists make a desperate
stand against Fascism and war, Norris sells himself as political
orator, spy, and double agent. He also sells his friends. Like its
companion novel, Goodbye to Berlin, Mr Norris Changes Trains offers
unforgettable characters struggling in the vortex as the Nazis rise
to power.
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on
stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli
in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming,
with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its
nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue;
powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this was the
period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye to
Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable
and divinely decadent Sally Bowles; plump Frau]lein Schroeder, who
considers reducing her Bu]steto relieve her heart palpitations;
Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their
relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the
Landauers."
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A Single Man (Paperback)
Simon Reade; Originally written by Christopher Isherwood
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Bhagavad-Gita - The Song of God (Paperback)
Anonymous; Translated by Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood; Introduction by Aldous Huxley
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The timeless epic of Hindu faith contains a simple, vivid message
of daily inspiration for millions throughout the world. This
powerful, beautiful scripture is translated into clear, meaningful
English which can be read as a living contemporary message that
touches the most urgent personal and social problems. (July)
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The Berlin Stories (Paperback)
Christopher Isherwood; Introduction by Armistead Maupin
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two
astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to
Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction.
Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its
avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and
dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and
seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this is the period when
Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is
inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally
Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on
the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and
Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee
mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump
Fraulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of
her Buste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the
distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers."
This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic
extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On
the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both
Sides--which are so different as to constitute two works--and
Auden's satiric revue The Dance of Death. Two plays appear in print
for the first time, Auden and Isherwood's The Enemies of a Bishop
and Auden's The Chase. Also included are Auden's prose and verse
written for doucmentary films, a cabaret sketch, and an unpublished
radio script. Many of the texts include poems by the young Auden
that have never been published before. The extensive historical and
textual notes trace the complex history of the production and
revision of these plays, including full texts and rewritten scenes.
During the years when these works were created, Auden moved from a
"poetry of isolation" to more expansive and public writing. After
he left Oxford at age twenty-one, during the summer of 1928, he
wrote the tragicomic charade Paid on Both Sides. During the next
ten years, until he left England for America, he created the
increasingly ambitious works for stage, film, and broadcast that
appear in this volume. The most important of these plays were
written in collaboration with Isherwood. As the world political
situation worsened, Isherwood and Auden's style combined the energy
of popular entertainment with the urgency of sacramental ritual.
Edard Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature
at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He
is the editor of two volumes of Aduen's poetry, Collected Poems
(Random House) and The English Auden (Random House). Originally
published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William
Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur
Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in
debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in
1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of
Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
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A Single Man (Paperback)
Christopher Isherwood
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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.
Discover the dark and decadent novella that inspired Cabaret. Set
in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze,
excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives
of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish
heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an
English upper-class waif, the divinely self-indulgent Sally Bowles.
'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George Orwell 'Isherwood
is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and
perspicacious' Evening Standard
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Intimate Journals (Paperback, Dover ed)
Charles Baudelaire; Translated by Christopher Isherwood; Introduction by W.H Auden
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Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death,
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the
20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays
transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of
physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world,
society, and philosophy.
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A Single Man (Paperback)
Christopher Isherwood
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When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its
frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife.
George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the
sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the
routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans
twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor
living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every
way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others
reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and
loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly
sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
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Prater Violet (Paperback)
Christopher Isherwood
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'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes
in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of
excellence' - Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the
temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a
young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job
is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in
nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. In the real
Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising.
Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes
unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing
egos threaten to derail the whole project.
This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic
extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On
the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both
Sides--which are so different as to constitute two works--and
Auden's satiric revue The Dance of Death. Two plays appear in print
for the first time, Auden and Isherwood's The Enemies of a Bishop
and Auden's The Chase. Also included are Auden's prose and verse
written for doucmentary films, a cabaret sketch, and an unpublished
radio script. Many of the texts include poems by the young Auden
that have never been published before. The extensive historical and
textual notes trace the complex history of the production and
revision of these plays, including full texts and rewritten scenes.
During the years when these works were created, Auden moved from a
"poetry of isolation" to more expansive and public writing. After
he left Oxford at age twenty-one, during the summer of 1928, he
wrote the tragicomic charade Paid on Both Sides. During the next
ten years, until he left England for America, he created the
increasingly ambitious works for stage, film, and broadcast that
appear in this volume. The most important of these plays were
written in collaboration with Isherwood. As the world political
situation worsened, Isherwood and Auden's style combined the energy
of popular entertainment with the urgency of sacramental ritual.
Edard Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature
at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He
is the editor of two volumes of Aduen's poetry, Collected Poems
(Random House) and The English Auden (Random House). Originally
published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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