Christopher Isherwood has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is A Single Man.
A Single Man
Summary
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life. The course of A Single Man spans 24 hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
©1992 Don Bachardy (P)2009 HighBridge Company
The Berlin Stories
Summary
Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself to embrace Hitler and the Third Reich. The Berlin Stories includes two works published together: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. These modern classics reveal in poignant detail the tragedy of mid-20th-century Germany.
©1990 Christopher Isherwood (P)2005 Phoenix Audio
Christopher and His Kind
Summary
Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable 10 years in the writer's life, from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story, and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains a classic in gay liberation literature and one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.
©1976 Christopher Isherwood (P)1976 HighBridge Company
Prater Violet
Summary
Isherwood's story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in 19th-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
©1945 Original material © 1945, renewed 1973 by Christopher Isherwood. Recorded by arrangement with Donadio & Olson, Inc. (P)2009 (p) 2009 HighBridge Company
Leb wohl, Berlin
Summary
CABARET meets BABYLON BERLIN. Die letzten Tage der Weimarer Republik in Berlin. Die Menschen verschließen die Augen vor der drohenden Katastrophe und feiern sich um den Verstand: zwei junge Männer, die in fataler Weise voneinander abhängen, eine vermögende jüdische Familie, die das nahende Unglück nicht wahrhaben will sowie zahlreiche Mitglieder der Halbwelt. Mitten unter ihnen träumt die hinreißend leichtsinnige Nachtclubsängerin Sally Bowles von der großen Karriere. Im Hintergrund der Szenerie marschieren bereits die Nazis auf... Das Hörspiel aus der Feder von Heinz Sommer und unter der Regie von Leonhard Koppelmann ist ebenso fulminant wie das Berlin in Isherwoods weltberühmten Roman.
©1939 Christopher Isherwood. Übersetzung von Kathrin Passig und Gerhard Henschel (P)2019 Hessischer Rundfunk/Der Hörverlag