Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
Sep 2024 · Macmillan + ORM
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322
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About this ebook
A witty, appealing, and often outrageous portrait of some of the twentieth century's most influential and creative minds
Subtitled "An Education in the Twenties," Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to Cambridge dropout-at-large in London's bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Christopher Isherwood's contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.
Subtitled "An Education in the Twenties," Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to Cambridge dropout-at-large in London's bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Christopher Isherwood's contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.
About the author
Christopher Isherwood was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and autobiographer. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel that inspired the musical Cabaret; A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which “carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement.” Isherwood died in 1986.
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