All the Conspirators

by Christopher Isherwood

Overview

A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values

Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation—clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504082327
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), perhaps the first major openly gay writer to be read extensively by a wider audience, was one of the most distinguished authors of the twentieth century. His literary friendships encompassed such writers as W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Somerset Maugham.

Editorial Reviews

"In Isherwood’s work, a magic potion of history and invention, the voice is clear, and no matter how many times we hear it, it always seems to be speaking for the first time."

The New York Times Book Review

"A novel of adolescence, of family life among the New Poor, of atrocities witnessed at tea in the drawing room. A profound but not impartial book."

Cyril Connolly

"Isherwood’s best critics, Gore Vidal and Elizabeth Hardwick, have characterized his work as journalistic and objective, and indeed his writing can be read as a series of dispatches from the gay front."

The New Yorker - Hilton Als

"The best prose writer in English."

Gore Vidal

"The best prose writer in English." - Gore Vidal

"This first novel is a key to Isherwood and the twenties. It is as mature as readable, as concentrated as anything he has written since." - Cyril Connolly

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