{"product_id":"9780811218047","title":"The Berlin Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA classic of 20th-century fiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film \u003cem\u003eCabaret\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in the 1930s, \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e contains two astonishing related novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Last of Mr. Norris\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. \u003cem\u003eThe Berlin Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in \u003cem\u003eI Am A Camera\u003c\/em\u003e and Liza Minnelli in \u003cem\u003eCabaret\u003c\/em\u003e; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370120056893,"sku":"9780811218047","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780811218047_p0.jpg?v=1771579971","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780811218047","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}