Works by
Christopher Isherwood
(Writer and
Long-Time Partner of Don Bachardy)

Fiction

• Jacob's Hands: A Fable (1930s)  by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood
  Jacob Ericson is a quiet, kind, and somewhat simple man who works as a ranch hand for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter, Sharon, in California's Mojave Desert in the 1920s. Jacob is a good man, genuine, honorable, but hardly extraordinary--until he miraculously heals a dying calf with his hands.
  
  However, while he is content to cure the town's animals, it isn't long before he is persuaded to use his gift in other ways. When Sharon, whom he adores, begs him to heal her leg, he cannot deny her.
  
  His acquiescence causes them both to be exploited. Sharon runs away to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of stardom. Jacob follows her, hopeful that they will meet again. And they do--as miserable performers in a seedy stage show. While they plan their escape from the dreary stage life, Jacob is asked to heal a self-absorbed young millionaire. And with his assent, Jacob's plans, and all of his dreams, begin to crumble.
  
  Written in tight, vivid, and seamlessly crafted prose, this previously unpublished tale by two of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century shows the dangers a magical gift holds for even the noblest of characters.

• Sally Bowles (1937)

• Lions and Shadows (1938)

• Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

• Prater Violet (1945)

• The Last of Mr. Norris (1952)

• The World in the Evening (1955)

• All the Conspirators; (1958)

• Down There on a Visit (1962)

• The Berlin Stories (1963)

• A Single Man (1964)

• Exhumations (1966)

• The Memorial: Portrait of a Family (1972)

• Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)

• The Berlin of Sally Bowles (1975)

• An Isherwood Selection (1979) with Geoffrey Halson

• October (1981)

• A Meeting by the River (1984)

• Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1987)

• Mortmere Stories (1994) with Edward Upward

Non-Fiction

• Christopher and His Kind: 1929 - 1939 (1976)
  Christopher and His Kind is an intriguing slice of autobiography. It covers ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to sp a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life in the States.
  
  The book revealingly contrasts fact with fiction-the real people Isherwood met in Germany with the portraits of them in his two Berlin novels, who then appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.  But one does not need to be familiar with his body of work to appreciate the powerful and compelling story he tells here. Isherwood left Berlin in 1933, after Hitler came to power. For the next four years, he wandered around Europe-through Greece, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France-with a German boy named Heinz.
  
  The characters in the book include W.H. Auden, Stephen Sper, and E.M. Forster as well as the literary circles of Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. Chronicling German refugees and the British colony in Portugal, the Group Theatre company (which performed the three Auden-Isherwood plays) and the film studio where he worked and which he used as the setting for Prater Violet, Christopher and His Kind is an engrossing and powerfully rered portrait of a decade in the life of a major writer.

• Kathleen and Frank (1971)

• People One Ought to Know (1982) with Sylvain Mangeot, Illustrator
  A collection of eighteen illustrated poems about a variety of animals with some particularly human characteristics.

• Great English Short Stories (1987)

• Christopher Isherwood's Commonplace Book: Being Some Quotations Christopher Isherwood Gathered and Recorded During His lLfetime (1993)

• Diaries (1939 - 1960) (1996), Katherine Bucknell, ed.

• The Repton Letters (1997)

• Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951 (2000)

• The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (2000), James J. Berg, James J. Berg, ed.

• Conversations With Christopher Isherwood (2001), James J. Berg, ed.

• The Condor and the Cows: A South American Travel Diary (2003)

Plays

• Two great plays by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood (1962)
  The Dog Beneath the S and The Ascent of F6

Spiritual

• What Vedanta Means to Me (1951)

• Approach to Vedanta (1963)

• Essentials of Vedanta (Works of Saint Bonaventure) (1969)

• Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1970)

• Vedanta for Modern Man (1972)

• My Guru and His Disciple (1980)

• Vedanta for the Western World (1985)

• The Wishing Tree (1987) with Robert Adjemian, ed.