Afterward, Mr Norris invites William to dinner and the two become friends. William and Mr Norris succeed in crossing the frontier. As they approach the frontier William strikes up a conversation with Mr Norris, who wears an ill-fitting wig and carries a suspect passport. The novel follows the movements of William Bradshaw, its narrator, who meets a nervous-looking man named Arthur Norris on a train going from the Netherlands to Germany.
The book was critically and popularly acclaimed but years after its publication Isherwood denounced it as shallow and dishonest. Isherwood began work on a much larger work he called The Lost before paring down its story and characters to focus on Norris. In 1985 the actor David March won a Radio Academy Award for Best Radio Actor for his performance in a dramatisation of the novel for BBC Radio 4. Inspiration for the novel was drawn from Isherwood's experiences as an expatriate living in Berlin during the early 1930s, and the character of Mr Norris is based on Gerald Hamilton.
It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The Berlin Stories. Norris) is a 1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. Mr Norris Changes Trains (published in the United States as The Last of Mr.
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