Mr Norris Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood (Vintage classics)

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I guess you’re taking a short break from your goal of reading one-classic-a-month to focus on the MBIP longlist? Mr Norris is a current Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists for which he is also an Examiner.Norris Changes Trains, 1935; Lions and Shadows, 1938; Goodbye to Berlin, 1939, 1st UK editions, half titles, portrait frontispiece to Lions and Shadows, a few light spots, all edges gilt, recent full morocco gilt by James Brockman, Oxford, 8vo, together with The Mortmere Stories, by Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward, introduced by Katherine Bucknell, illustrated by Graham Crowley, Enitharmon Press, 1994, limited signed edition 19/50 (contained in a solander box), 8vo, and People One Ought to Know, illustrated by Sylvain Mangeot, 1st edition, 1982, also contained in a solander box.

This sounds wonderful – I’ve always rather avoided Isherwood, mainly because I wasn’t a fan of Cabaret back in the day. I have the hard back edition which comes with its own outer casing; it has 170 pages and some lovely illustrations by Beryl Cook which add greatly to the piece.He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. It is the time of the rise of the Nazis and Norris introduces Bradshaw to Beyer and the Communist Party, who are opposing the Nazis. On the train to Berlin, his travelling companion is Arthur Norris, an older man, with an obvious wig and of nervous disposition, particularly as they approach the German frontier. Although Isherwood was living more or less openly as a homosexual, he balked at making Bradshaw homosexual as well.

He also has an interest in training and is currently Training Programme Director for the Thames Valley Deanery for Ophthalmology. The Lost was initially planned as a much more comprehensive work, but Isherwood jettisoned much of the material and many of the characters, including Sally Bowles, the Nowaks and the Landauers, to focus on Mr Norris. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based.I believe that this novel gives a clear, and perhaps alternative view to most, of what the German population really thought and felt towards Hitler and fascism. Boards edgeworn with nudging and scuffing to spine ends, darkening to spine, and some general smudging and soiling to surface. This entry was posted in Book Reviews, Isherwood Christopher and tagged Book Review, Christopher Isherwood, Classics Club, Fiction, UK, Vintage Books on March 22, 2016 by JacquiWine. Knives were whipped out, blows were dealt with spiked rings, beer-mugs, chair-legs, or leaded clubs; bullets slashed the advertisements on the poster-columns, rebounded from the iron roofs of latrines. It can be interpreted to be a friendship of convenience as all gatherings tend to be for Norris – when needs something or it is convenient for him.