Author : Christopher Isherwood
Release : 2015-11-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lions and Shadows by : Christopher Isherwood
Download or read book Lions and Shadows written by Christopher Isherwood. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.