Mr Norris changes trains
- 240 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
This book portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and Mr.Norris.
Berlínske romány Séria
Táto séria románov nás zavedie do búrlivého Berlína pred druhou svetovou vojnou. Sleduje osudy mladého cudzinca, ktorý sa zaplieta s excentrickými postavami a nespútaným bohémskym životom. Atmosféra dekadencie, irónie a blížiaceho sa nebezpečenstva je vykreslená s prenikavým pozorovaním a bystrým humorom. Ide o sugestívny portrét mesta na pokraji skazy a znepokojujúce politické varovanie.
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Goodbye to Berlin
- 256 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Evokes the decadence, repression, glamour, and sleaze of Berlin in the early 1930s, depicting people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Jewish heiress Natalia Laundauer, gay lovers Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles
The Berlin Stories
- 207 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction by the acclaimed novelist Maupin.
New Directions - 134: The Berlin Stories
- 401 stránok
- 15 hodin čítania
First published in 1935 and 1939, the two related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which make up The Berlin Stories are recognized today as classics of modern fiction.A charming city of avenues and cafés, a grotesque city of night-people and fantasts, a dangerous city of vice and intrigue, a powerful city of millionaires and mobs - all this was Berlin in 1931, the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power.Here are Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught in the struggle between Nazis and Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; the Landauers, a distinguished and doomed Jewish family; Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in "I Am a Camera" and by Liza Minelli in "Cabaret."
The Berlin novels
- 512 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
Includes Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin , the inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret . It is a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror and a portrait of Bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.
