E. M. Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process. Following the death of her husband, a widow named...

The Longest Journey (1907) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Despite its critical success, the novel was a commercial failure for Forster, but has since grown in reputation and readership to help cement his reception as one of twentieth century England's most talented writers. Rickie Elliot enters Cambridge as a young man, exploring his interests in poetry and art and joining a circle of intellectuals centered around, a philosopher named...

A Collection of Fables and Short Fantasy Stories. In the Celestial Omnibus, a young boy discovers a strange trail so he decides to wake up early and investigate. When the sun rises, he sees a carriage that picks him up taking him to Paradise. There he has wonderful experiences but will Mr. Bons experience the same?

"Something that cuts across them like a bar of light . . . patiently illumines all their problems, and at another place shoots over or through them as if they did not exist. We shall give that bar of light two names, fantasy and prophecy." -E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel Six compelling tales intertwined with fantasy spotlight the profound humanism that E. M. Forster developed in his later novels. These early writings provide readers with...

This compilation of short stories by one of the twentieth century's preeminent authors spotlights journal and magazine fiction from 1900 to 1911. These early tales exhibit the first traces of E. M. Forster's witty and elegant style as well as the profound humanism that he further developed in his later novels. Six fables reinterpret classical stories and themes, drawing upon folkloric elements to explore the truth of the imagination and the effects...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by E. M. Forster: Howards End; The Longest Journey; A Room With A View; Where Angels Fear to Tread.

This novel presents the story of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian man, and of the efforts of her bourgeois relatives to get her back from Monteriano. Next, Forster published The Longest Journey (1907), an inverted bildungsroman following the lame Rickie Elliott from Cambridge to a career as a struggling writer and then to a post as a schoolmaster, married to the unappealing Agnes Pembroke. Forster's third novel, A Room...

El narrador de Pánico refleja la mezquindad moral y emocional que E.M. Forster considera, con suave ironía, típica de la clase alta inglesa. Este personaje emite juicios sobre todas las situaciones y personas que lo rodean. Sin embargo, como se ¡acta de saber contar una historia sin exageraciones, resuelve hacer un relato imparcial de los extraordinarios sucesos ocurridos ocho años atrás. "Aunque el hermoso cielo azul estaba arriba y los...

The story of the clash between the young, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, and his corrupt superior, Claggart.