Mr Norris Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood (Vintage classics)

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I started reading Mr Norris Changes Trains as part of the summer book challenge on The Reader’s Room, but I haven’t felt as compelled to chain read like I usually do this summer, so I didn’t finish the challenge.

It’s really the humorous observations and characterisations that were the highlight of the book for me. This was Isherwood’s first Berlin book and while as not as famous as the later one, it is still an interesting book. Isherwood, and Norris choose the Left, even though Norris is not necessarily, ever, quite what he seems, and may have fingers in many pies, as he also has some friends whose political allegiance seem to belong more naturally to the right. After his brusque self-introduction, he proved most affable and treated us, without further request, to a discourse on his career, aims, and methods of work. E magari è proprio per questo che va a Berlino: sembra il posto giusto nel giusto momento in cui trovarsi.

After Isherwood wrote joke answers on his second-year exams, Cambridge University in 1925 asked him to leave. its background is the Berlin of 193-33 a city of prostitutes and political gunmen, on the edge of starvation and civil war. Mr Norris is a dedicated oculoplastic surgeon who routinely performs specialist surgery relating to the eyelids and surrounding structures. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day.

Reader's noteDiscover a sought-after vintage collectible with this horizontal striped orange penguin title! Not to do so meant that "The Narrator would have become so odd, so interesting, that his presence would have thrown the novel out of perspective. G. Wells Henry Williamson Herbert Jenkins historical fiction horror fiction Howard Spring Hugh Walpole humorous fiction J.Norris Changes Trains, and Goodbye to Berlin, on which the musical Cabaret was based, as well as works of nonfiction and biography. 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. Some sunning and general wear to dust jacket(in good condition), now in removable protective sleeve. 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. The story is narrated by William Bradshaw, a young Englishman who is going to Berlin to teach English and get to know the city, at the beginning of the 1930s.