This collection includes the classic novels of the “Berlin” period of Christopher Isherwood’s work, “The Works and Days of Mr. Norris” and “Farewell to Berlin.” The plot of the novel “Goodbye Berlin” formed the basis for the script for the Broadway musical “Cabaret” and the cult film of the same name by Bob Fosse with Liza Minnelli in the title role. Berlin before the Nazis came to power. The nightlife famous throughout Europe is still in full swing here, jazz is crying, The lights of cabarets and clubs are on. Free morals still reign here, adventurers of all stripes flourish and vices of all colors and rivers of alcohol flow between the banks of cocaine. There are still real street battles going on here between the “reds” and the “browns,” and no one can know what tomorrow will be like. And the young Englishmen - the heroes of both Isherwood's novels - with eyes widened in naive amazement, watch the motley kaleidoscope of amazing faces and events, not even imagining how soon this strange, charming and whimsical decadent world will come to an end...