Mr Norris Changes Trains [SEP] publisher
to cause a scandal and feared that should he cause one his uncle, who was financially supporting him, would cut him off. Yet Isherwood had no interest in making Bradshaw heterosexual either, so the Narrator has no scenes of a sexual nature.
The novel was still titled "The Lost" when Isherwood mailed the manuscript to Hogarth Press for publication, but the title was eventually changed to "Mr Norris Changes Trains". Isherwood meant to evoke with that title not only Norris's continual moves from country to country to
avoid his enemies and creditors, but also his constantly shifting political alliances and interests. Isherwood's friend Stephen Spender preferred the original title, saying of the new one that "It gives one the sense of earrings." An employee at William Morrow and Company, Isherwood's American publisher, told Isherwood that no one in the United States would understand the term "changes trains" and so Isherwood supplied the alternate title "The Last of Mr Norris". "He thereby created the false impression that these are two different novels