First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two remarkable interconnected novels, The Last Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are now recognized as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood brilliantly captures Berlin in 1931: charming, with its boulevards and cafés; wonderfully grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vices and intrigues; powerful and rundown, with its mobs and millionaires – this is the time when Hitler began to rise to power. The Berlin Stories is populated by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures were popularized on the American stage by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and by Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the unlikely old debauchee caught mysteriously between the Nazis and the Communists; the plump Miss Schroeder; and the respected yet doomed Jewish family.