Lions and Shadows

Christopher Isherwood

Original title: Lions and shadows: an education in the Twenties

earliest edition we have, 1974 University of Minnesota Press, 2000 312 pages

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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 s...

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Editions we hold

Lions and Shadows paperback · 2015 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 320 pages · 9780374535308
Lions and Shadows edition · 2015 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 320 pages · 9780374187705
Lions and Shadows edition · 2013 · Penguin Random House · 256 pages · 9780099561224
Le lion et son ombre paperback · 2000 · Minerve · 222 pages · 9782869310186
Lions and shadows edition · 2000 · University of Minnesota Press · 312 pages
Lions and Shadows paperback · 1998 · Random House of Canada, Limited · 256 pages · 9780749386764
Lions and shadows edition · 1985 · Methuen · 191 pages
Lions and shadows edition · 1979 · Magnum Books · 191 pages
Lions and shadows edition · 1977 · New Directions Pub. Corp. · 249 pages
Lions and shadows edition · 1974 · New English Library
Lions and shadows edition · 1974 · New English Library · 191 pages
Lions and shadows edition · Methuen · 191 pages · 9780413598509

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