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Lions and Shadowsblends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in Londons bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, Christopher Isherwood works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion changed the literary identity of England in the 1930s.
Softcover. English. Nel. 1968. 191 pp. In fair condition. Book No: 29190