The Last of Mr Norris
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The Last of Mr Norris is a 1935 novel by Christopher Isherwood that portrays the political tensions and seedy underworld of Weimar Berlin through the narrator’s relationship with the enigmatic title character.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Last of Mr Norris canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Cabaret (indirectly, via Isherwood’s Berlin stories) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Christopher Isherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Rex Whistler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
communist underground in Berlin
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political tensions in Weimar Berlin ⓘ rise of Nazism ⓘ seedy underworld of Berlin ⓘ |
| firstEditionCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublisher | William Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionTitle | Mr Norris Changes Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Goodbye to Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT-related novel
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political novel ⓘ psychological novel ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Mr Norris Changes Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Arthur Norris
NERFINISHED
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Baron von Pregnitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Fraulein Schroeder NERFINISHED ⓘ Ludwig Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ William Bradshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780811200677 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 250 ⓘ |
| hasSettingFeature |
boarding houses in Berlin
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border crossings and train journeys ⓘ cafés and nightclubs in Berlin ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Berlin Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | key work in English-language depictions of Weimar Berlin ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Arthur Norris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | William Bradshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| publisher | William Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship under political pressure
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moral ambiguity ⓘ political opportunism ⓘ sexual ambiguity ⓘ surveillance and espionage ⓘ |
| timeOfNarrative | early 1930s ⓘ |
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