Christopher Isherwood's fiction and autobiography blend into each-other seamlessly, which leads to some funny confusions, for example in one book he has a female character write a book with the same title as one of his own novels. I was completely captivated by his style and particularly enjoyed the stories about Mr. Norris, many of which are incorporated into The Berlin Stories, and the parts of Lions and Shadows about his years at Cambridge completely wrapped up in an imaginary Gothic world he shared with a friend. I also loved his description of working as the secretary of a string quartet after his willful failure at the university. Both of these books could be called semi-autobiographical....

The stories about Sally Bowles which were first published separately are also now collected in The Berlin Stories. They reminded me too much of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but they are charming.