Mr Norris Changes Trains

Mr Norris Changes Trains
First edition
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHogarth Press
Publication date
1935
Pages280
OCLC1160132
Followed byGoodbye to Berlin (1939) 

Mr Norris Changes Trains (published in the United States as The Last of Mr. Norris) is a 1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The Berlin Stories. Inspiration for the novel was drawn from Isherwood's experiences as an expatriate living in Berlin during the early 1930s,[1] and the character of Mr Norris is based on Gerald Hamilton.[2] In 1985 the actor David March won a Radio Academy Award for Best Radio Actor for his performance in a dramatisation of the novel for BBC Radio 4.[3]

Isherwood began work on a much larger work he called The Lost before paring down its story and characters to focus on Norris. The book was critically and popularly acclaimed but years after its publication Isherwood denounced it as shallow and dishonest.

  1. ^ Isherwood (1945), "Preface"
  2. ^ Singh, p. 71
  3. ^ "Obituary: David March". The Independent. 17 September 2011.