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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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
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
political novel
psychological novel
hasAlternativeTitle Mr Norris Changes Trains NERFINISHED
hasCharacter Arthur Norris NERFINISHED
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
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
moral ambiguity
political opportunism
sexual ambiguity
surveillance and espionage
timeOfNarrative early 1930s

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Mr Norris Changes Trains titleVariant The Last of Mr Norris