ISHERWOOD, Christopher.

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The Berlin Stories. First combined edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ted Haubich, with best wishes, Christopher Isherwood, Jan. 1949".This edition collects The Last of Mr. Norris (1939) and Goodbye to Berlin (1935), two stories set in Jazz Age Berlin on the cusp of Hitler's rise to power. George Orwell praised both, describing the former as a "little masterpiece" and the latter as a "brilliant portrait of a society in decay" (p. 237). They were first published separately by the Hogarth Press, The Last of Mr. Norris originally titled Mr. Norris Changes Trains. Isherwood originally intended to write a huge novel about Weimar Berlin, The Lost, of which these stories were to form a part.

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