The Berlin Stories

The Berlin Stories

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<p><strong>A classic of 20th-century fiction, <em>The Berlin Stories</em> inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film <em>Cabaret</em>.</strong></p> First published in the 1930s, <em>The Berlin Stories</em> contains two astonishing related novels, <em>The Last of Mr. Norris</em> and <em>Goodbye to Berlin</em>, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and caf©s; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires€•this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. <em>The Berlin Stories</em> is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in <em>I Am A Camera</em> and Liza Minnelli in <em>Cabaret</em>; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fr¤ulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Bste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.