Download or read book Diaries written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diaries written by Christopher Isherwood and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1997-01-29 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diaries 1939 1960 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske forfatters (1904-1986) dagbøger
Download or read book Diaries written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Isherwood is well known for his prophetic portraits of a morally bankrupt Europe on the eve of World War II, in this chronicle he turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.
Download or read book Diaries 1939 1960 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the diaries of writer Christopher Isherwood, chronicling his life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, through the 1960s, some of the most turbulent years of his career, and into the early 1980s. He reflects on major turning points in his life including the spiritual crisis he went through as World War II began, his discipleship (along with Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard) with the Hindu monk Swami Prabhavananda and his decision to become a pacifist. It continues with his accounts of his intense social life in Hollywood, his career as a screenwriter and his many sexual affairs. He also talks about his long-term companion, Don Bachardy whoe burgeoning career pulled Isherwood into the 1970s art scenes in Los Angeles, New York, and London, where we meet Rauschenberg, Ruscha, and Warhol, as well as Hockney and Kitaj. Collaborating with Bachardy on scripts for the prizewinning Frankenstein and the Broadway fiasco A Meeting by the River, Isherwood extended his ties in Hollywood and in the theater world.
Download or read book Diaries written by Christopher Isherwood and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1997-01-29 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the diaries of writer Christopher Isherwood, chronicling his life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, through the 1960s, some of the most turbulent years of his career, and into the early 1980s. He reflects on major turning points in his life including the spiritual crisis he went through as World War II began, his discipleship (along with Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard) with the Hindu monk Swami Prabhavananda and his decision to become a pacifist. It continues with his accounts of his intense social life in Hollywood, his career as a screenwriter and his many sexual affairs. He also talks about his long-term companion, Don Bachardy whoe burgeoning career pulled Isherwood into the 1970s art scenes in Los Angeles, New York, and London, where we meet Rauschenberg, Ruscha, and Warhol, as well as Hockney and Kitaj. Collaborating with Bachardy on scripts for the prizewinning Frankenstein and the Broadway fiasco A Meeting by the River, Isherwood extended his ties in Hollywood and in the theater world.
Download or read book The Sixties written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the raw Australian outback. He charts his ongoing quest for spiritual certainty under the guidance of his Hindu guru, and he reveals in reckless detail the emotional drama of his love for the American painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior and struggling to establish his own artistic identity. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time—Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, Leslie Caron, Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Hope Lange, W. Somerset Maugham, John Osborne, Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Richardson, David O. Selznick, Igor Stravinsky, Gore Vidal, and many others. But the diaries are most revealing about Isherwood himself—his fiction (including A Single Man and Down There on a Visit), his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. He moves easily from Beckett to Brando, from arthritis to aggression, from Tennessee Williams to foot powder, from the opening of Cabaret on Broadway (which he skipped) to a close analysis of Gide. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period: the anxieties of the Cold War, Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight, de Gaulle and Algeria, the eruption of violence in America's inner cities, the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, the moon landing, and the raising and lowering of hemlines. Isherwood is well known for his prophetic portraits of a morally bankrupt Europe on the eve of World War II; in this unparalleled chronicle, The Sixties, he turns his fearless eye on the decade that more than any other has shaped the way we live now.
Download or read book Diaries 1939 1960 written by Frances Partridge and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes, combined as one here, cover Frances Partridge's life from 1939-1960. Members of the Bloomsbury set, Frances and Ralph Partridge were staunch pacifists but took a keen interest in World War II, an interest which is documented in the earlier years of her diaries.
Download or read book The Sixties 1960 1969 written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time - Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham and many others. They are most revealing about Isherwood himself - his fiction, his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period such as the anxieties of the Cold War, the moon landing and the Vietnam war. In The SixtiesIsherwood turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.
Download or read book Lost Years written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a half decade he all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his lifelong habit of keeping a diary.".
Download or read book The Sixties written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. These pages are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time—Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham, Vanessa Redgrave, David O. Selznick, Igor Stravinsky, Gore Vidal, and many others—yet prove most revealing about the author himself. Isherwood moves easily from Beckett to Brando, from arthritis to aggression, from Tennessee Williams to foot powder, while referencing the political and historical events of the period: the anxieties of the Cold War, Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight, the eruption of violence in America’s inner cities, the Vietnam War, the moon landing, and the Summer of Love. In his unparalleled chronicle, The Sixties, Christopher Isherwood turns his observant, unerring eye on the decade that, more than any other, has shaped the way we live now.
Download or read book A World Gone Mad written by Astrid Lindgren and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A civilian, a mother, and a writer's unique account of a world devastated by conflict 'A rare glimpse of life in neutral Sweden and an insight into the dark setting that created her best-known work' FT Before she became internationally known for her children's books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of The Second World War. In these diaries, Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs. Alongside political events, she includes delightful vignettes of domestic life, moments of personal crisis, and reveals the origins of Pippi Longstocking - soon to become one of the most famous and beloved children's books of the twentieth century.
Download or read book War Diaries 1939 1945 written by Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete and unexpurgated publication of the diaries of Lord Alanbrooke, who during World War II was Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Empire and Churchill's most prominent advisor -- and rival.
Download or read book The Richard Burton Diaries written by Richard Burton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years—from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death—and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions. From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights—among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee—he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Download or read book Ups and Downs Diaries 1972 1975 written by Frances Partridge and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This life of great warmth and friendship was brought to an abrupt end when Ralph died of a heart attack in 1960. Three years later another tragedy struck when their only son, Burgo, died at the age of 28 from a brain haemorrhage. 'I have utterly lost heart: I want no more of this cruel life,' Frances wrote and yet, despite such enormous suffering, she maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries chronicle a remarkable life. Beautifully written, full of an infectious enthusiasm and unending curiosity, they are utterly riveting and rank amongst the greatest diaries of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book The Animals written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Hollywood. The Animals provides a loving testimony of an extraordinary relationship that lasted until Chris's death in 1986 and survived affairs (on both sides) and a thirty-year-age-gap. In romantic letters to one another, the couple created the private world of the Animals. Chris was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Don was the playful young white cat, Kitty. But Don needed to carve out his own identity some of their longest sequences of letters were exchanged during his trips to London and New York, to pursue his career as an artist and to widen his emotional and sexual horizons. Amidst the intimate domestic dramas, we learn of Isherwood's continuing literary success the royalty cheques from Cabaret, the acclaim for his pioneering novel A Single Man and the bohemian whirl of Californian film suppers and beach life. Don, whose portraits of London theatrel
