Who wrote the novel 'Mr. Norris Changes Trains', published in 1935?
Mr Norris Changes Trains Mr Norris Changes Trains 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, and the character of Mr Norris is based on Gerald Hamilton. Isherwood began work on a much larger work he called "The Lost" before paring down its story and characters to focus on Norris.
Mr Norris Changes Trains created the false impression that these are two different novels, one the sequel to the other. Which ... led to much wearisome correspondence with readers, setting the record straight." Although "Mr Norris Changes Trains" was a critical and popular success, Isherwood later condemned it, believing that he had lied about himself through the characterisation of the narrator and that he did not truly understand the suffering of the people he had depicted. In his introduction to an edition of Gerald Hamilton's memoir "Mr Norris and I" (1956) Isherwood wrote: What repels me now about "Mr Norris" is its heartlessness. It