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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
- John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900)
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1104 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0061180009
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
"This volume spans the period from 1939, when Isherwood left England for good to live in the U.S., to his sixty-fifth birthday in 1960, when he was in permanent residence in California." (Booklist) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. These diaries, covering the period up to 1960, describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California, where he eventually settled. The diaries tell how Isherwood became a disciple of the Hindu monk Swami Prabhavananda; about his pacifism during World War II; about his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Stravinsky, Aldous Huxley, Gielgud, Olivier, Richard Burton, Charles Laughton, and David O. Selznick - many of whom were emigres like himself. Throughout this period, Isherwood continued to write novels and sustain his literary friendships - with E. M. Forster, Somerset Maugham, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and others. He turned to his diary several times a week to record jokes and gossip, observations about his adopted country, philosophy and mystical insights. His devotion to his diary was a way of accounting for himself; he used it as both a discipline and a release. In spare, luminous prose, he also revealed his most intimate and passionate relationships, particularly with Bill Caskey and later with the very young Don Bachardy.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
At times pious, at times profane, the never-before-published diaries of Christopher Isherwood provide an inside look at the life and times of one of the century's most celebrated writers. Here are accounts of his intensely social life in Hollywood, his career as a screenwriter, and his many sexual affairs; here also are revealing anecdotes about writers W.H. Auden, Thomas Mann, E.M. Forster, and Tennessee Williams, and movie stars Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, and Sir Laurence Olivier. An intimate account by the man Gore Vidal called "the best prose writer in English"
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"The most authoritative account we shall ever have." —Thomas Mallon
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