num_pages: 255
description: A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after WWI and the generation that tried to escape its valuesChristopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation―clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.
language: English
title: All the Conspirators
titlecomplete: All the Conspirators
characters: Victor Page, Harold Eliott, Colonel Page, Dorothy Lindsay, Mary Durrant, Joan Lindsay, Philip Lindsay, Allen Chalmers, Arthur Langbridge
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Queer, Literary Fiction, Novels, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, British Literature
ratings_count: 284
places: London, England, Cornwall, England
publisher: New Directions