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Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays.
Learn about the life and works of E.M. Forster, a British novelist, essayist, and social critic. Explore his themes of imagination, earth, and liberalism in novels such as Howards End and A Passage to India.
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- A Room with a View.
- Howards End.
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass (Editor), Pankaj Mishra (Introduction)
- Maurice.
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Forster had five novels published in his lifetime and one more, Maurice, appeared shortly after his death although it was written nearly sixty years earlier. A seventh, Arctic Summer, was never finished. His first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), is the story of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian. It details the...
Forster's views as a secular humanist are at the heart of his work, which often features characters attempting to understand each other, in the words of Forster's famous epigraph, across social barriers. His humanist views are expressed in the non-fictional essay What I Believe. Forster's two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, ex...
Novels
1. Where Angels Fear to Tread(1905) 2. The Longest Journey(1907) 3. A Room With A View (1908); Howards End(1910) 4. A Passage to India(1924) 5. Maurice(written 1913-1914, published posthumously in 1971) 6. Arctic Summer(1980), (posthumous, unfinished)
Short stories
1. The Celestial Omnibus (and other stories)(1911) 2. The Eternal Moment and other stories(1928) 3. Collected Short Stories (1947)— a combination of the above two titles, containing: "The Story of A Panic," "The Other Side Of The Hedge," "The Celestial Omnibus," "Other Kingdom," "The Curate's Friend," "The Road From Colonus," "The Machine Stops," "The Point Of It," "Mr Andrews," "Co-ordination," "The Story Of The Siren," "The Eternal Moment" 4. The Life to Come and other stories(1972), (posth...
Plays and Pageants
Abinger Pageant (1934), England's Pleasant Land(1940)
Howards End(1992), dir. James IvoryMaurice(1987), dir. James IvoryA Room with a View(1985), dir. James IvoryA Passage to India(1984), dir. David LeanAbrams, M.H. and Stephen Greenblatt. "E.M. Forster." The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C., 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. ISBN 0717273563Ackerley, J. R. E. M. Forster: A Portrait. London: Ian McKelvie, 1970. ISBN 0950163309Bakshi, Parminder Kaur. Distant Desire. Homoerotic Codes and the Subversion of the English Novel in E. M. Forster's Fiction. New York, 1996. ISBN 9780820425443Beauman, Nicola. Morgan. Scepter, 1994. ISBN 0340599065All links retrieved October 4, 2017. 1. Aspects of E.M. Forster 2. 'Only Connect': The unofficial Forster site 3. Pharos: E. M. Forster 4. The Paris Review interview with E. M. Forster
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by E. M. Forster, a romance and a critique of Edwardian society. The novel follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman who falls in love with George Emerson, a free-spirited man, in Italy and England.
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A brief overview of the life and works of E. M. Forster, a prominent novelist and public intellectual of the early twentieth century. Learn about his six novels, his essays, his awards, and his legacy.
Learn about the life and works of E. M. Forster, a British writer and member of the Bloomsbury group. Find out his major novels, such as A Passage to India and Howards End, and his literary criticism, Aspects of the Novel.
