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Mr Norris Changes Trains (published in the United States as The Last of Mr. Norris) is a 1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The Berlin Stories.
- Christopher Isherwood
- 1935
Mr. Norris Changes Trains. Christopher Isherwood. 3.75. 5,091 ratings436 reviews. First published in 1933, the novel portrays a series of encounters in Berlin between the narrator and the camp and mildly sinister Mr. Norris. Evoking the atmosphere in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis, the novel has achieved the status of a modern classic.
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Christopher Isherwood: Mr. Norris Changes Trains. This was Isherwood’s first Berlin book and while as not as famous as the later one, it is still an interesting book. The story is narrated by William Bradshaw, a young Englishman who is going to Berlin to teach English and get to know the city, at the beginning of the 1930s.
Jul 9, 2021 · This book portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and Mr. Norris General Access-restricted-item
Apr 23, 2013 · On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier.
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Jan 1, 2005 · This novel begins with William Bradshaw, a young English tutor, meeting the slightly ridiculous Mr Arthur Norris on a train to Berlin. Mr Norris is nervous at having to present his passport, elusive about what he does and, with his rather obvious wig and odd habits, does not seem as though he is a character to take seriously at first.
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- Christopher Isherwood
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.
