Prater Violet
 Prater Violet (1945) is Christopher Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons. Though Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel Isherwood comments on life art commercialization of art and Nazism.