Lions And Shadows
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a young man adrift in the turbulent currents of post-WWI England — and Lions and Shadows is his vivid, semi-autobiographical chronicle of that formative journey. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s, the narrative traces Isherwood's passage through public school and Cambridge, charting his friendships with a brilliant, eccentric cast of characters — most notably a thinly veiled W.H. Auden — as he struggled to forge an identity as a writer in a world still haunted by the Great War. Isherwood presents this education in the twenties with characteristic wit, irony, and unflinching self-awareness, blurring the boundaries between memoir and fiction in a way that anticipates his later masterworks. The prose is luminous and precise, alive with the anxieties and ambitions of a generation caught between tradition and modernity. Far more than a simple coming-of-age story, it stands as a vital document of the interwar literary scene — leaving the reader to wonder where the invented self ends and the true author begins.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Before Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a young man adrift in the turbulent currents of post-WWI England — and Lions and Shadows is his vivid, semi-autobiographical chronicle of that formative journey. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s, the narrative traces Isherwood's passage through public school and Cambridge, charting his friendships with a brilliant, eccentric cast of characters — most notably a thinly veiled W.H. Auden — as he struggled to forge an identity as a writer in a world still haunted by the Great War. Isherwood presents this education in the twenties with characteristic wit, irony, and unflinching self-awareness, blurring the boundaries between memoir and fiction in a way that anticipates his later masterworks. The prose is luminous and precise, alive with the anxieties and ambitions of a generation caught between tradition and modernity. Far more than a simple coming-of-age story, it stands as a vital document of the interwar literary scene — leaving the reader to wonder where the invented self ends and the true author begins.