This series transports readers to the tumultuous streets of pre-war Berlin, capturing its vibrant yet precarious atmosphere. It follows the experiences of an outsider navigating a world of eccentric characters and bohemian decadence. Through witty observations and sharp prose, the novels portray a society teetering on the brink of immense change and danger. These stories offer a compelling glimpse into a city and an era shadowed by an impending political storm.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
Evokes the decadence, repression, glamour, and sleaze of Berlin in the early 1930s, depicting people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Jewish heiress Natalia Laundauer, gay lovers Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles
A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction by the acclaimed novelist Maupin.