The first of Christopher Isherwood's great "Berlin" novels, Mr. Norris Changes Trains, depicts the meeting and developing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and faintly ominous Mr. Norris. It provides intriguing insight into pre-war Berlin. Piquant, witty, and indirect, it powerfully conveys an ironic political parable while evoking the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin. GOODBYE TO BERLINThis novel is still one of the most potent of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. It served as the basis for the films Cabaret and I Am a Camera. It is an unforgettable portrayal of bohemian Berlin, a city and a society on the verge of disaster, told in a succession of sarcastic, distant, and impressionistic vignettes.