With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships.
- ISBN10 0586045562
- ISBN13 9780586045565
- Publish Date 11 January 1979 (first published 1 January 1946)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Triad Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English