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Lions and shadows: an education in the twenties

By Christopher , University of Cambridge;Isherwood

Book information

Publisher
Random House;Vintage Classic
Year
2013
ISBN
9781446476154, 9780099561224, 0099561220, 1446476154
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
937 kB (959536 bytes)
Series
Vintage classics (London England)
Pages
pages cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

LITERARY STUDIES: FROM C 1900 -. This title features with an introduction James Fenton. Subtitled "An education in the twenties", this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood's contemporaries Auden, Upward, and 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.

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