Lions and shadows
an education in the twenties
by Christopher Isherwood
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"In 1938 the legendary Hogarth Press published the first of Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical writings, Lions and Shadows. In this book, Isherwood evokes the atmosphere of Cambridge as only he knew it, describing his life as a tutor, medical student, and struggling writer. The result is a captivating account of a young novelist's development in the burgeoning literary culture of the 1920s and of his experiences as he forges lifelong friendships with his peers W. H.
Auden, Stephen Spender, and Edward Upward."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Childhood and youth, College students, English Authors, Social life and customs, University of Cambridge, 20th century, Authors, English, England, Fiction in English, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), In literature, Fiction, biographicalPlaces
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Lions and shadows: an education in the twenties
2000, University of Minnesota Press
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Lions and shadows: an education in the twenties
1979, Magnum Books
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Lions and shadows: an education in the twenties
1974, New English Library
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In this largely autobiographical book Isherwood gives a fascinating account of the making of a writer. His story begins with the intellectual hothouse atmosphere of Cambridge in the early twenties: but it is his wickedly funny depiction of the Bohemian life of London, with thinly disguised portraits of many brilliant men - Auden and Stephen Spender among them - that is most intriguing. With his witty, appealing and sometimes outrageous pen Isherwood illuminates the society that created writers and thinkers who have shaped much of the twentieth century
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