Penguin Modern Classics 
 
Christopher Isherwood Mr Norris Changes Trains 
From the first word to the last, this book is alert, intelligent, original and amusing. It is successful as a picture of pre-Hitler Germany, in a more general way as a study of a society moving towards dissolution, as an imaginative treatment of sex problenis, and just as a highly amusing story'- London Mercury Here is a true original: a flabby rogue without, as one would say, a single redeeming quality, who is nevertheless one of the most delightful persons one has met in fiction for a long time, and absolutely real' - Daily Telegraph The cover shows a detail from Portrait of Graf by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the Municipal Art Gallery, Düsseldorf (photo Walter Klein) For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S A