The previously unpublished diaries of the twentieth-century novelist follow his emigration from Germany as World War II began, his social life in Hollywood, his homosexual affairs, and his relationships with famous literati.

Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 (Christopher Isherwood Diaries)

ISHERWOOD, Christopher

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

The late author of Goodbye to Berlin describes his "lost years" in postwar Santa Monica, New York, and London, a time spent in frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, and debilitating anxiety and despair.

Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951

Arts & Literature

The late novelist, idolized as an elder statesman of the gay liberation movement, narrates his life following his emigration to America in 1939, from his pacifism during the war to his friendships with the period's actors and literary figures. Reprint.

Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960

Harper-perennial

“Intimate and compulsively readable.” —Alfred Corn, The Nation
The second volume of acclaimed author Christopher Isherwood’s diaries takes readers to the heart of the 1960s, the decade in which Isherwood’s semiautobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin would be adapted into the Tony Award-winning musical Cabaret. Against a background of cultural paradigm shifts including the advent of space travel, pop art, and mod fashion, and seminal events like the Kennedy/Nixon election, the Marianne Faithfull/Mick Jagger romance, the rise of the Hippie movement, and the riotous explosion of America’s inner cities, The Sixties follows Isherwood’s friendships with creative powerhouses such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Richard Burton, and Gore Vidal, and continues the saga of his great romance with portraitist Don Bachardy.

The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969

Harper

The Sixties: Diaries 1960-1969

Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New York, and London—a world peopled by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, as well as his Broadway writing career, which brought him in touch with John Huston, Merchant and Ivory, John Travolta, John Voight, Elton John, David Bowie, Joan Didion, and Armistead Maupin. With a preface by Edmund White, Liberation is a rich and engaging final memoir by one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.

Liberation: Diaries, Volume Three, 1970-1983

Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God

The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations.Here is a distinguished translation that can be read by every person, not as an archaic monument to an ancient culture, but as a living contemporary message that touches the most urgent personal and social problems.

Self-Help

Motivational

HarperCollins, Publishers

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and drinking. Looking back from the 1970s, Isherwood recreated these years from personal memories to form a remarkably honest mixture of private and social history.

Vintage

Goodbye to Berlin

Published to coincide with the revival of "Cabaret", now opening on Broadway, "Goodbye To Berlin" is the original story of the chanteuse heroine Sally Bowles. Isherwood ironically captures life in Weimar Berlin, a city infamous for its flourishing demimonde and violent politics.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage Books

A Single Man

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation. 'A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful' - "Sunday Times".

LGBTQ+ Books

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Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 (Christopher Isherwood Diaries)

Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951

Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960

The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969

The Sixties: Diaries 1960-1969

Liberation: Diaries, Volume Three, 1970-1983

Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God

Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951

Goodbye to Berlin

A Single Man